SCENE
After the initial walk through this is done.
What is securing the scene?
Keeping track of who handles evidence.
What is chain of custody?
Fingerprints are this type of characteristic.
What are individual characteristics?
Lines in a fingerprint.
What are ridges?
Death investigations are those inquiries that are open to interpretation.
What is Equivocal Death?
Must be particular in what you're looking for and where you're looking.
What is a search warrant?
Hair is an example of this type of evidence.
What is trace evidence?
A hidden fingerprint that is developed.
What is a latent print?
A "fork" in a fingerprint.
What is a "bifurcation"?
Calcium deposits causing muscle stiffness after death.
What is Rigor Mortis?
The photographs that show evidence in relation the the scene.
What are intermediate photographs?
The forensic scientist who said there is an exchange between suspects and scenes in EVERY scene.
Who is Edmond Locard?
The 3 types of fingerprint patterns.
What is loop,whorl,and arches?
A pattern of a foot made on a solid surface by dust,powder, or similar medium.
What is a foot print?
Investigations into the reason or cause of death is performed by a Medical Examiner.
What is an Autopsy?
The most efficient search pattern for a single investigator in a small area.`
What is the spiral search method?
This type of evidence is mostly used to exonerate wrongfully convicted defendants.
What is DNA?
3 ridges coming together in a small area of a fingerprint.
What is a delta?
Your favorite class at Mount Saint Charles?
What is Forensics?
Crumbly white, waxy substance that accumulates on those parts of the body that contain fat.
What is adipocere or grave wax?
The 3 types of measuring of evidence techniques.
What is rectangular coordinate, baseline, and triangulation?
A doctor whose primary function is to determine the cause of death.
Who is the medical examiner?
A cousin of Charles Darwin who developed identification by way of fingerprints in the 1880's.
Who is Francis Galton?
The famous male detective in Blue Bloods, son of the Commissioner.
Who is Danny Reagan?
Discoloration of skin due to blood settling to lower portions after death.
What is Livor Mortis (Lividity)?