Terms
The person researching remains (bones)
What is a forensic anthropologist?
The genre using real facts and events
What is nonfiction?
The person who is subjected of a crime
What is the victim?
The use of "I" in an article/text
What is a 1st person narrator
Statistically the gender that watches true crime as a guilty pleasure
Who is women?
Accused of murdering her father and stepmother with an axe in Fall River, Massachusetts.
Who is Lizzie Borden?
The person who defends a suspect in court
What is a defense attorney?
The reporting of a single topic of interest
What is investigative journalism?
A person thought to be guilty
What is a suspect?
The catch of a reader's attention
What is the hook?
The man who hijacked an airplane, extorted ransom, and then parachuted from the plane
Who is D.B. Cooper?
Serial killer who taunted police with cryptic letters in Northern California
Who is The Zodiac Killer?
A public official who acts as prosecutor for the state in a particular district
What is the district attorney?
What is a murder ballad?
The person who kills another
What is a murderer?
A Sequence of events told in their order of occurrence in time
The notorious gangster who rose to infamy as a powerful crime boss in Chicago during the 1920s and early 1930s
Who is Al Capone?
Charismatic serial killer who confessed to murdering over 30 women across multiple states.
Who is Ted Bundy
An unsolved case which is no longer investigated
What is a cold case?
The type of nonfiction with a focus on subjective subjective details
What is narrative nonfiction?
The a claim or piece of evidence that one was elsewhere when an act, typically a criminal one, is alleged to have taken place.
What is an alibi?
A story told by various people involved, such as victims, law enforcement, witnesses, or even the perpetrator
What are multiple perspectives?
A sensational unsolved murder case from 1947 involving the brutal killing of Elizabeth Short
What is the Black Dahlia?
Chicago man who murdered 33 young men and boys, hiding many victims under his house.
Who is John Wayne Gacy?
What is a forensic pathologist?
The recording of audio discussion on a specific topic, like business or travel, that can be listened to
What is a podcast?
Able to be believed or convincing
What is credible?
A single-side or one-side illogical and non-neutral support of a viewpoint in favor against the other side
What is bias?
This infamous criminal couple gained notoriety for a spree of robberies in the 1930s before being killed by police.
What is Bonnie and Clyde?
America's first known serial killer, built a “Murder Castle” in Chicago during the World’s Fair.
Who is H.H. Holmes?