This is why we collect fingerprints at the scene of a crime.
Because each person has a unique set of fingerprints?
100
True of False...everything at a crime scene is important.
What is True?
100
The technical term for a lie detector test.
What is polygraph?
100
This the year the FBI was founded.
What is 1908?
100
This person looks at fingerprints and determines whether ones found at a crime scene match any in the databases.
What is a fingerprint analyst?
200
Name the 3 common classifications of fingerprints.
What are the loop, whorl, and arch?
200
Name 3 things that could be collected from a crime scene.
What is blood, fingerprints, shoe prints, murder weapon, etc.?
200
These little tiny creatures can help determine how long a body has been dead.
What are bugs like beetles and maggots?
200
The year that fingerprints were first digitalized.
What is 1977?
200
This person collects, analyzes, and tests bullets and guns that have been determined as part of a crime scene.
What is a firearms specialist?
300
This is country with the earliest record of using fingerprints.
What is China?
300
What is one of the most important ways to document evidence.
What is taking pictures?
300
True or false...eye witness testimony is the best type of evidence.
What is False?
300
This is the year that the individuality of fingerprints was definitely established.
What is 1892?
300
This person tests the human tissues and fluids that are recovered from a crime scene to determine whether there are any traces of drugs or alcohol.
What is a forensic toxicologist?
400
Before fingerprinting became the most used identification system, these other parts of the body were measured and recorded on the wrap sheets of criminals.
What is the length and width of the head, the length of the middle finger, length of the forearm, size of feet, etc.?
400
This is how Crime Scene Investigators help to keep a crime scene from becoming contaminated.
What is by wearing plastic gloves, glasses, face masks, shoe covers, sectioning off the crime scene, regulating the people who can enter, etc.?
400
This is needed before you are allowed to search the private property of a suspect.
What is a search warrant?
400
Begun in the 1940s, when fingerprints were not available, these were used instead to identify the victim of a crime.
What is teeth or dental records?
400
This person uses all of the evidence collected and tested by the various different labs as well as interviews eyewitnesses, suspects, and victims to solve crimes.
What is a detective?
500
This country has the largest fingerprint database.
What is India?
500
This is the type of powder used to dust for fingerprints.
What is aluminum powder?
500
This is the best way of linking a suspect to a crime.
What is finding their DNA at the crime scene (preferably on the murder weapon)?
500
The year that DNA was first used in court to convict a suspect of a crime.
What is 1987?
500
This person examines dead bodies to determine the cause and manner of death.