True Crime
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Forensics Fields
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Crime Shows and Movies
100

After a travesty in mishandling evidence, what case resulted in an accused professional football player to be acquitted?

O.J. Simpson Case

100

The three main categories for fingerprints.

Loops, whorls, arches

100

This job involves traveling from the lab to the crime scene to collect and document evidence for analysis.

Crime Scene Investigator

100

This bone is typically the most reliable in identifying victims with DNA.

Teeth

100

This movie involves an FBI rookie partnering with a cannibal to catch a serial killer named Buffalo Bill.

Silence of the Lambs

200

This famous serial killer was known to dress as a clown for children's parties.

John Wayne Gacy
200

Overall, the first species of bug to find a dead body is ________.

Blow fly

200

This job may use the life stages of insects to determine the time a time of death or when a crime occured.

Entomology

200

In hair analysis, it is known that humans have a _______ medulla than animals.

Smaller

200

A 15 season show (plus a reboot) about a team of FBI Criminal Profilers who always catches the serial killer every 45 minutes.

Abby Sciuto

300

This person had the first nationally televised criminal trial and was located in Tallahassee, FL.

Ted Bundy

300

What percent of a human's DNA is identical to another (excluding identical twins)?

99.9%

300

This jobs may measure and study bones to help identify a victim or understand what happened at a crime.

Anthropologist

300

Term for the pooling of blood created by gravity in a deceased individual that starts about 2 hours after death.

Livor Mortis

300

In this show, a blood spatter analyst chooses to kill other murderers in a vigilante fashion as a serial killer.

Dexter

400

This cult leader is popularized for manipulating his followers to kill several people, including Sharon Tate and her friends in Hollywood.

Charles Manson

400

Cyanide is known to smell like _____ to about 60-80% of the human population.

Almonds

400

This job examines data and financials to determine misconduct or fraud.

Forensic Accountant

400

This chemical produces a bright pink hue as a color indicator in presumptive blood testing.

Phenolphthalein

400

In Breaking Bad, a chemistry teacher and partner create crystal meth with a _____ hue.

Blue
500

The Single-Bullet Theory, or the Magic Bullet Theory, was created after the assassination of ________ in 1964.

JFK

500

On average, how long does the blue glow from Luminol last when testing for the presence of blood?

30 seconds

500

This job may analyze soil to determine where a crime occurred or to help an investigation in other ways.

Forensic Geology

500

PCR uses a thermocycler to replicate small amounts of DNA for analysis. What does PCR stand for?

Polymerase Chain Reaction

500

Pauley Parrette plays _______ ________ in NCIS as a forensic scientist.

Abby Sciuto