Terms & Concepts
Small pieces of evidence like hair or fiber
What is trace evidence?
Cold case killer caught in 2018 using DNA evidence
Who is the Golden State Killer?
The study of a human skeleton to determine physical characteristics
What is Forensic Anthropology?
Every contact leaves a trace
What is Locard's Principle?
Substance you would look for in a deceased person's lungs if they died in a fire
What is fire?
The documented record of everyone who has handled evidence
What is chain of custody?
Forensic psychologists judged this mother to be criminally insane in 2001 after she killed her five children
Who is Andrea Yates?
Evaluating a defendant's ability to stand trial
What is Forensic Psychology
Everything is unique
Area commonly swabbed to get optimal amount of DNA
What are the insides of your cheek?
A chemical used to detect extremely small quantities of blood
What is luminol?
200+ victims died from cyanide poisoning
What is the Jonestown Massacre
The study of drugs, alcohol, and other toxins in the body at the time of death
What is Forensic Toxicology?
Substances change over time
What is Law of Progressive Change?
Another type of print that is specific to a person besides fingerprints
What is footprint?
The amount of time that has passed since a person's death
What is PMI?
The search history that this killer tried to erase after murdering four students at the University of Idaho
Case reports of other serial killers
What is Digital Forensics?
Evidence must be properly documented
What is Principle of Analysis?
Circumstance that would require you to disregard DNA despite having a good DNA profile
What is when the defendant is an identical twin?
Incriminating evidence
what is inculpatory evidence?
Two kids from Idaho who disappeared in 2019 and their remains discovered in 2020
Who are J.J Vallow and Tylee Ryan?
What is Forensic Anthropology?
Reason why evidence has to be documented
The definition of a transient piece of evidence