Serial Killers
Killled over 33 people (men/teen boys) and buried them beneath his home.
Who is John Wayne Gacy?
High school girl went missing on a graduation trip in Aruba, 2005.
Who is Natalee Holloway?
A key part of this case is when the body was discovered the woman who discovered it thought it was a mannequin.
What is the Black Dahlia case?
Branch Davidians were part of this cult. Their leader was David Koresh.
What is "WACO"?
What technique involves making a Y shaped incision along the chest of the corpse and comes from the greek word "to see oneself"
What is an autopsy?
This serial killer escaped capture twice.
Who is Ted Bundy?
Three-year-old girl went missing from a vacation resort in Portugal, 2007.
Who is Madeleine McCann?
Colorado; six-year-old beauty queen found murdered on Christmas day in her parent's home.
Who is JonBenet Ramsey?
This man led the group called, the Peoples Temple. Many members left the US to live on a commune called Jonestown in Guyana.
Who is Jim Jones?
This technique was invented in 1895 but wasn't widely used until the State of Ohio v. Samuel Sheppard case. This technique involves analysing the path of a fluid to determine the wound site.
What is blood spatter analysis?
Killed and dismembered 17 men and boys. Some involved cannibalism; some were permanently preserved.
Who is Jeffrey Dahmer?
Was kidnapped at age 11 and held captive for 20+ years; had two children during this time. She was found in 2009.
Who is Jaycee Duggard?
This famous cold case has a nursery rhyme themed after it.
What is the Lizzie Borden Case?
Cult leader who started his group in San Francisco, in 1967. Was obsessed with song, "Helter Skelter."
Who is Charles Manson?
This technique involves taking stomach fluid, tissue, blood or other substances from a cadaver post mortem to screen for substances.
What is a toxicology test/tox screen?
Who is Jack the Ripper?
Two-and-a-half-year-old boy went missing without a trace in Timber Creek Falls (Idaho)?
Who is DeOrr Kunz?
This was a string of fatal poisonings involving a common over the counter drug.
What were the Tylenol Murders?
Members in this cult believed they would leave Earth on the Hale-Bopp comet.
What is Heaven's Gate?
This technique was originally invented in 300 BCE in China and was later more widely used in criminal investigations starting in 1858
What is fingerprinting?
Murdered 7 men in Florida by shooting them at point blank range.
Who is Aileen Wuornos?
Hijacked a plane in 1971 and jumped out with the cash, never to be seen again.
Who is "DB Cooper?"
This case involves the discovery of a man mysteriously found lying dead on a beach with no trace of identity.
What is the Somerton Man case?
This cult recently had a Netflix documentary made about its social media branch
What is the 7M cult?
What is the technique of tracing crimes through digital spaces?
What is cybersecurity forensics?