Categories and Evidence Classifications
Eyewitness Accounts
What is testimonial evidence?
Indoor crime scene
When using the spiral method to search, this is how many investigators are needed.
What is one?
Investigators collect 50-11 hair samples for this reason.
What is that many samples accounts for variations within a persons hair?
Proper way to store powders or liquids.
What is non-breakable, leak-proof containers?
Finding a gun registered to a suspect at the scene of a crime.
What is associative evidence?
A large area where there is a single point identified from which to start
What is wheel method?
When using the strip/line method, at least this many people are needed to complete it.
What is 6 people?
Blood evidence should be collected and placed in one of two places ASAP. (List two places)
What is refrigerator or freezer?
Proper way to store small glass particles.
What is a paper bindle?
Temporary evidence that can be easily lost.
What is transient evidence?
A large area where a thorough search is needed
What is grid method?
Chris is a crime scene investigator and has just uncovered an entire skeleton at a crime scene. He start with this part of the skeleton.
What is the skull?
In a suspected overdose case, a toxicologist requests liver tissue samples instead of just blood samples during an autopsy due to what reason?
Some substances may no longer be detectable in blood but can still be found in liver tissue due to metabolism
Proper way to store liquid blood.
What is collection on a gauze pad, allowed to dry, and placed in a brown paper bag or box.
Provides information on the condition of the scene, or aids in reconstructing the scene.
What is conditional evidence?
A small space with a clear point of origin
What is spiral method?
In cases of sexual assault, this professional collects swabs for sexual evidence on a victim
Who is a physician? (Doctor)
A toxicology report shows high levels of a substance in urine but low levels in blood. The most likely explanation for this finding is...
The substance was consumed some time ago and has been metabolized
Two main priorities before packaging firearms.
What is unloading the weapon and placing a flag to let others know it is unloaded?
Subcategories of physical evidence. List three.
What is:
Associative
Conditional
Pattern
Transfer
Transient
Large area, looking for a large object
What is strip method?
In cases when excavating skeletal remains, this professional is required to be on scene.
Who is Forensic Anthropologists?
While at a crime scene the following can be tested on a firearm....(list all three)
What is accidental discharge, ejection pattern, and silencer testing?
Unlike other evidence this evidence can be packaged together.
What is glass?