Crime Scene Recon
This person or group involved in crime scene reconstruction is often the first to arrive.
What is law enforcement?
Blood spatter hitting a surface at 90 degrees will create a pattern of this shape.
What is a circle?
What is postmortem?
This is the length of time that has elapsed since a person died.
What is postmortem interval?
Bruising on the skin can be an indication that this was the cause of death.
What is blood force injury?
These individuals are often scientists and analyze the evidence to help reconstruct the events of the crime.
Who are criminalists or forensic scientists?
This part of a blood stain points in the direction that the blood stain is traveling.
What is the tail?
This is an examination of the body after death.
What is an autopsy?
A medical condition that occurs after death that results in the settling of blood in the areas of the body closest to the ground.
This is often the cause of death for victims of a fire.
What is asphyxia?
This person is not a medical doctor but may be involved in the investigation of a death.
This bloodstain pattern comes from an object striking liquid blood, usually a large amount of it.
These are the two parts of the autopsy.
What are external and internal examinations?
A process that occurs after death in which the body temperature continually cools until it reaches the same temperature as the surrounding area.
What is algor mortis?
A medical examiner may take silicon castings of the wounds to determine the size and shape of the weapon for this cause of death.
The collection, documentation and interpretation of these items are the foundation of reconstructing a crime scene.
What is the evidence?
When a blood-bearing surface comes in contact with another surface, this is created.
What is a transfer stain?
This type of forensic expert can be consulted to help determine if the skeletal remains are male or female.
What is a forensic anthropologist?
These "contents" may be collected during autopsy to help establish a timeline of events, including the decedent's last meal.
What are stomach contents?
A star-like pattern in the skin from a gunshot wound tells us this about the weapon.
This person, a doctor, works with the forensic scientists and law enforcement to help figure out the who, what, where and why of a crime scene.
What is a medical examiner?
This bloodstain pattern comes from the entrance wound of a gunshot wound and can be found on the suspect if they were close enough to the victim.
What is backspatter?
A fractured thyroid cartilage in a victim found hanging can often indicate foul play because it doesn't happening in hangings but by this method of asphyxiation.
What is manual strangulation?
This person studies the different types of insects and there phases to help establish an estimate of the time of death.
What is a forensic entomologist?
Testing the blood, liver or vitreous humor of a decedent can tell us if this played a roll in the cause of death.
What is drug or alcohol use?