Evidence
An adhesive used to lift trace evidence from a crime scene or object.
What is tape?
Specialized law enforcement who use police dogs to assist at crime scenes. They are useful in drug detection, cadaver location, pursuit and apprehension of suspects, and explosive identification.
Who is a K-9 officer?
An act that is forbidden by law.
What is a crime?
Any object or specimen that contributes valuable information at a crime scene such as blood, hair, clothing fibers.
What is physical evidence?
A forensic scientist who works to educate the next generation and help students build knowledge of forensic science guided by scientific principles.
Who is a professor of forensic science?
A type of fingerprint only made visible when forensically developed. Cannot typically be seen directly.
What is a latent fingerprint?
A mark made by the outside surface of the sole of a shoe and reveals distinctive patterns.
What is a shoeprint impression?
Specialized law enforcement that analyzes flame patterns, residues, and accelerants at fire-related incidents.
Who is an arson investigator?
A person thought to be capable of committing a crime.
Who is a suspect?
Ridge characteristics left behind on surfaces in the form of oily residue or impressions.
What are fingerprints?
A person who examines bodies and performs autopsies to determine the time and cause of death.
Who is a medical examiner or coroner?
What tool is used to measure evidence at a crime scene?
Made from long filaments (synthetic or natural) which vary in uniformity depending on how they are manufactured.
What are fibers?
what is the name of the first people to arrive at a crime scene?
What is a first responder
An unsolved case which is still open but is no longer being actively investigated.
What is a cold case?
The tool used to enlarge or look close at an image
What is a magnifying glass
A person who helps law enforcement officials by creating drawings or 3D models of potential suspects, missing persons and crime victims.
Who is a forensic artist?
The medical dissection and examination of a body to determine the cause of death.
What is an autopsy?
A tool used to see microscopic evidence
What is a microscope
Who is a first responder?
Fire or police
Used by law enforcement to record several physiological processes simultaneously (pulse, blood pressure, respiration, perspiration, etc.)
What is a polygraph?
The physical area where a crime was commited
What is a crime scene
True or False: It is important to secure a crime scene
true
The genetic material contained in cells.
What is DNA or deoxyribonucleic acid?
Any foreign material that is introduced in the aftermath of a crime scene. Can be brought in by witnesses, suspects, victims, emergency responders, fire fighters, police officers and investigators.
What is contaminated evidence?
True or false: Our fingerprints will not contaminate a crime scene.
false
What is used to store evidence when it is collected?
What is an evidence bag
A type of evidence that implies (but does not prove) that a person committed a crime.
What is circumstantial evidence?
A person who studies human bones, culture, and skeletal structures in a criminal investigation.
Who is a forensic anthropologist?
What do you call a person who sees a crime occur?
What is a witness
Evidence that is created when two objects make contact with one another.
What is trace evidence?
what are the yellow tags with numbers used for at a crime scene
Evidence tag
A crime scene searching pattern. The scene is segmented into smaller areas, each of which is individually searched for evidence.
What is a grid search?
What is used to protect hands while collecting evidence?
what are gloves
A paper bag
What is someone called when they are suspected of a crime?
What is a suspect?