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TAKE A WILD GUESS
IF THE SHOE FITS
100% Cotton
DOT YOUR i's AND CROSS YOUR t's
CRIMINALS SHOULD WEAR GLOVES
100
An educated guess as to what happened
What is an inference?
100
A type of shoe with a very deep tread pattern
What is a hiking boot?
100
Analysis that uses characteristics such as strength and wrinkle resistance
What is fabric analysis?
100
The analysis of handwriting
What is graphology?
100
The four main types of fingerprint patterns
What are a loop, whorl, arch, and composite fingerprint pattern?
200
An observation using numerical data
What is a quantitative observation?
200
A footprint characteristic that can tell you if the person was running or walking
What is stride length?
200
Another word for how much water a piece of fabric attracts
What is the absorbency?
200
This graphology characteristic is when someone dots their I’s with hearts
What are flourishes and embellishments?
200
Fingerprints match when they have this many common characteristics
What is eight?
300
An observation using your five senses
What is a qualitative observation?
300
This includes dirt, snow, mud, and sand…
What are trace materials?
300
The manipulated variable in a fabric analysis
What is the type of fabric?
300
When cursive writing is written in combination with printing
What is unusual letter formation?
300
These types of fingerprints are invisible to the naked eye
What is a latent print?
400
Ph is a characteristic of soil that can be found using this test
What is a bromothymol blue test?
400
The size of a footprint can be a good indication of this
What is a persons’ height?
400
Two tests that can be done to identify fabrics that were NOT done in class, but mentioned
What is a burn test and dye test?
400
Three characteristics of a persons writing that can be analyzed (that haven't been mentioned yet)
What is line quality, spacing, ratio of height width and size, pen lifts and separations, connecting strokes, beginning and ending strokes, pen pressure, slant, baseline habits, placement of diacritics (t's or i's)?
400
What fingerprints are made up of
What are friction ridges?
500
Statements that investigators get from people who may have been involved in, or know something about a crime
What are witness statements?
500
The number one BEST indicator that a specific shoe is the exact match to a shoe print
What are wear patterns or damages?
500
Two characteristics of fabric not mentioned yet
What is elasticity, and texture/ size?
500
Someone who analyzes handwriting for a living
What is a Graphologist?
500
This is what causes our fingerprint pattern to transfer onto objects that we touch (3 things)
What are oil, perspiration, and amino acids?