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 forensic discipline was used to catch notorious serial killer Ted Bundy, but has since raised growing concerns about its reliability.
What is odontology?
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
This man established the University of Tennessee's Anthropology Research Facility, also known as "The Body Farm."
Who is Dr. William Bass?
This discipline/technique faced controversy after the FBI discovered that 96% of 268 cases contained erroneous statements and exaggerated matches.
What is hair microscopy?
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?
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 popularized a method for classifying fingerprints that is still used today.
Who is Sir Francis Galton?
This former chemist at a Massachusetts drug lab faked test results and adulterated samples over several years, leading to thousands of criminal convictions being overturned and the closure of the lab
Who is Annie Dookhan?
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.
Who is H.H. Holmes?
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 is the term for the study of fingerprints
What is Dactylography?
He is known as the "father of genetic fingerprinting."
This case involved the misuse of statistics to suggest a low probability of natural death in cases of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), leading to a mother's wrongful conviction for the murder of her two infant sons.
What is the Sally Clark case?
This 1932 case led to advancements in handwriting analysis, the use of ransom notes as evidence, and the establishment of kidnapping as a federal crime when interstate travel is involved
What is the Lindbergh Kidnapping?
The Forensic Osteology Research Station (FOREST) is the second human decomposition research facility in the world, established in this year
What is 2007?
Identifying offenders/suspects by measuring their heads, fingers, and ears is known as
What is anthropometry (or the Bertillon system)?
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?
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 was the first televised court case, involving a woman accused of convincing a student to kill her husband.
What is the Pamela Smart trial?