WCU's Program
This is the date, time, and location of the next Forensic Science Club meeting
What is the UC Cardinal Room on 09/16/2025 at 04:45pm?
This forensic field studies poisons and drugs found in body fluids and tissues.
What is toxicology
This pioneer is known for the famous quote, "Every contact leaves a trace."
Who is Dr. Edmond Locard?
This organization was founded to exonerate falsely accused people using sound forensic evidence.
What is the Innocence Project?
This criminal has made waves after being released from prison in December 2023, after serving eight years for the second-degree murder of her mother.
Who is Gypsy Rose Blanchard?
She is the Forensic Research Scientist and Program Director
Who is Dr. Frankie West?
This specialist examines human remains to determine characteristics like height and ethnicity.
What is a forensic anthropologist
Hans and Zacharias Jannsen, a Dutch father-son duo, are credited with inventing this device, saying, "We see the invisible world through lenses of curiosity."
What is the compound microscope?
Since 1992, roughly how many people has the Innocence Project helped exonerate due to faulty bite mark analysis? (+/- 3)
What is 13? (12 of which spent 10+ years in prison)
This forensic discipline was used to catch notorious serial killer Ted Bundy, but has since raised growing concerns about its reliability.
What is odontology?
Most faculty offices of the forensic science department are located in this building.
What is the Apodaca Science Building?
This discipline deals with investigating fraud or embezzlement and analyzing financial information.
What is forensic accounting?
This man established the University of Tennessee's Anthropology Research Facility, also known as "The Body Farm."
Who is Dr. William Bass?
This forensic technique was misused in the Sally Clark case, falsely suggesting a low probability of natural death in cases of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), leading to her wrongful conviction for the murder of her two infant sons.
(Hint: What class have you used the word probability?)
What is forensic statistics?
The claim of police mishandling and potentially contaminating evidence during the OJ Simpson case resulted in stricter protocols for this system that is used to track the processing of evidence.
What is the evidence chain of custody?
These are the 2 established concentrations of the Forensic Science Bachelor's degree.
What is biology and chemistry?
(Forensic Anthropology is technically its own degree, not a "concentration")
This discipline can involve criminal profiling, working on civil cases or child custody disputes, and even advising on jury selection.
What is forensic psychology?
Francis Glessner Lee is a girl boss who is best known for crafting these, which were designed to train homicide investigators.
What are the "Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death" (miniature models, based on actual cases)?
In 2004, the FBI came under fire for incorrectly matching a fingerprint to a person in this case.
What is the Madrid Train Bombing (aka Brandon Mayfield)?
This man was the leader of the Peoples Temple cult and orchestrated the mass murder-suicide of over 900 members in Jonestown, Guyana, in 1978.
Who is Jim Jones?
The Forensic Osteology Research Station (FOREST) is the second human decomposition research facility in the world, established in this year
(Hint: I was 3 years old)
What is 2007?
This is the term for the study of fingerprints
(Hint: they call cats with more toes than normal polydactyl)
What is Dactylography?
He is known as the "father of genetic fingerprinting."
(Hint: he is a "Sir")
Who is Sir Alec Jeffreys?
This discipline/technique faced controversy after the FBI discovered that 96% of 268 cases contained erroneous statements and exaggerated matches.
(Hint: it is NOT bite mark analysis)
What is hair microscopy?
He is America's first well-documented serial killer (confessing to 27), and he lured, trapped, and killed victims in his "Murder Castle" in Chicago.
(Hint: he shares a last name with a famous, fake investigator)
Who is H.H. Holmes?