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| biological evidence[image] |
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| samples of material—such as hair, tissue, bones, teeth, blood, semen, or other bodily fluids to identify DNA. |
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| Documentation illustrating the evidence and all individuals of the investigation that took part in collecting the samples. |
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| Circumstantial Evidence[image] |
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| Any evidence that requires some reasoning or inference in order to prove a fact. |
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| Crime scene search patterns[image] |
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| Technique when processing a crime scene such strip, grid, spiral, line/lane, zone/quadrant, and wheel/pie. |
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| Assisting equipment such as fingerprint brush, chemicals, oblique lighting, markers, swabs, evidence bags, tape, camera, labels, vials, measuring tape, and caution tape, gloves, mask, face shield, shoe covers, coveralls etc. |
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| Arson, rape, murder, drug raid, assault, abandon collisions, fraud, cyber stalking, driving intoxicated, Blackmail, Bribery, Burglary, kidnapping etc. |
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| Cross contamination[image] |
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| Source of transferred evidence from items to another sample due to a poorly handled investigation. |
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| Directly links a person to a crime by a personal testify of truth of fact or a witness of the crime. |
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| Formulated the exchange principle that the perpetrator of a crime will bring something into the crime scene and leave with something from it, and both can be used as forensic evidence. |
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| Finger prints, foot prints, hand print, soil, shoe prints, drugs, tire tracks, DNA, blood, fiber, hair, semen, chemical debris, arsenic debris, suicide note, vegetation, insects, digital items/log, fire arms, bullet/ bullet casing, tool tool marks etc. |
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| Identification items used to illustrate items of evidence at a crime scene. |
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| Primary material are paper bags along with vials, contained swabs, druggist folds, and print cards. |
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| Information such as the evidence name, case #, marker #, date, evidence collector name, crime scene, and location. |
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| Forensic Science careers[image] |
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| Medical Examiner, Forensic Engineer, crime scene cleaner, Forensic Accountant. ... Crime Scene Investigator, Crime laboratory Analyst, Forensic Science Technician Salary, Forensic Archaeologists Salary, Forensic Psychologists Salary etc. |
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| Objects found at the scene of a crime. Example fingerprints, foot prints, hand prints, tire marks, cut marks, tools, tool marks, glass, fiber, hair etc. |
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| Used to determine the presence of substance such as blood, drugs, bodily fluids and to eliminate species differentiation. Example Kastle Meyer test. |
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| Patent prints, plastic prints, latent prints. |
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| Procedure of evidence collection[image] |
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| Communicate with on the scene, view the scene, establish security, plan, survey, document scene, conduct second review, record & preserve evidence. |
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| Sketch that illustrates evidence, surrounding items, directional location, information labels, descriptive key, and measurements used to show the layout of the crime scene. |
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| Items that may be transferred between people, objects, or the environment. |
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