Important People
This person was dubbed the name Unabomber for specifically due to the targets of their attacks.
What were university and airlines?
Who examines bloodstain patterns at crime scenes to reconstruct events?
Who is a Forensic Blood Spatter Analyst?
This literary character used scientific methods before they were accepted by real investigators
Who was SHerlock Homes?
This is the first thing you must do when you show up to a crime scene.
What is secure the crime scene?
This is what COD stands for.
What is cause of death?
This is what Francis Galton contributed to the forensic science field.
What was the first definitive study of fingerprints/classification system?
Who analyzes biological samples (blood, urine, tissue) for drugs, alcohol, and poisons to help determine cause of death, impairment, or criminal involvement?
Who is a Forensic Toxicologist?
This piece of physical evidence found in a jacket pocket was used to link a gunman to a murder.
What was a wad of paper?
This what we as forensic scientists must leave behind when we show up to a scene.
What is prejudice and bias?
This is where forensic science begin?
Where is the crime scene?
This is principle that Edmond Locard is known for discovering?
What is Locard’s Exchange Principle? Every contact leaves a trace.
Which forensic career creates behavioral profiles of criminals?
Forensic Psychiatrist
This was the first recorded autopsy.
What was the autopsy of Julius Caesar?
This is why CSI makes sure to see the scene before searching for and securing evidence.
What is to be able to reconstruct the crime scene?
This is what a Forensic Scientist must wear when inside a crime scene.
This person developed anthropometry (body measurements for identification)?
Who is Alphonse Bertillon?
Who uses insect larvae to estimate time of death?
Who is a Forensic Entomologist?
This was an example of the first use of fingerprints in recorded history.
What was showing ownership of clay pots in ancient China?
What was securing the scene?
What does an expert witness provide in court?
Specialized knowledge/opinion to help explain evidence
This Taiwanese born criminologist is regularly requested to help investigate criminal cases.
Who is Henry Lee?
Who studies skeletal remains?
Who is a Forensic Anthropologist?
This early study involving two pigs, fire, and ash was a prime early example of using the scientific method.
What was using the burnt pig to prove that the man must have been dead before the house burned down?
This is what a crime scene investigator must not do before analysing all evidence.
What is interpret the evidence? Make conclusions?
This is the origin of the term Forensic
What is Latin meaning belonging to the forum?