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Who was the FBI's first director?
J Edgar Hoover
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Why did they burn food to test for posion?
Burning arsenic smells like a whiff of Garlic
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Other names for Aresnic?
Inheritance Powder and Widow Maker
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What is Dr. Valentine Rose's arsenic test?
Cut open and boil the stomach. The liquid remains were then filtered and treated with nitric acid. This changed the arsenic into arsenicious oxide.
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How was German serial killer Anna Zwanziger caught?
Via Dr. Valentine Rose's test for Arsenic
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What is the Styrian Defense?
The victim purposefully consumed the Arsenic
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How were the first coroner (crowner)'s employed?
The coroner (crowner)'s were chosen by the crown.
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The coroner (crowner)'s orginal job was to…
Run an injury and choose a jury to study the crime.
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Who was Dr. Thimas Watley?
He founded the British medical journal, the Lancelot, and is responsible for all corners being doctors.
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What was Goerge Smith's killing technique in the case of the Brides in the Baths?
He would yank his wife's legs up, causing their heads to quickly submerge.
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Hiw did Gettler run tests for cyanide posionings?
He would look for symptoms such as blue lips or a bitter almond smell - then grind the stomach lining into a sludge so he could test it.
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What is does double jeopardy mean?
It means that no person can be charged with the same crime twice
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Why were laundries crucial to solving crimes?
They had a numbering system that was stamped into clothes - these numbers were used to identify the owner
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Who was the first detective?
François Eugène Vidocq
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Who was Edmond Lecard?
He founded the world's first crime laboratory, and created the Locard principle.
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What is the Locard principle?
Every contact leaves a trace
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How can hairs be used as evidence.
The can identify a suspect based on physical characteristics and DNA Evidence.
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What is the issue with hairs as evidence?
An average human loses a hundred hairs a day, someone with dandruff is nearly double that. (It only shows that were at the scene of the crime, not that they were there during the time of the crime, or that their guilty of anything)
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How can threads be used as evidence?
They are made of many materials (hemp, wool, cotton, polyester, nylon, etc), and contain specific dyed. They can be tracked to a manufacturer.
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Who is Alphonse Bertillon?
He created the Bertillonage identification system. It involved measuring the convict’s height, left arm from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger, head circumference, ear length, and more. There is a 1 in 286 million chance that 2 people would be the same.
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What did William Herschel, Dr. Henry Faulds, and Sir Francis Galton do?
Studied, researched, and developed fingerprinting
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Who was Juan Vucetich?
He was the first police official to begin fingerprinting convicts
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When did America switch form Bertillonage to fingerprinting?
After a 1903 case about two criminal twin brothers with the same name (will and William west) who didn't know the other existed.
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When was the first fingerprint used to convict a criminal in court?
In an 1894 case about a stolen calendar (and a murdered boss)
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When was the first time fingerprint were used to convict a murderer?
In a 1904 case about an elderly murdered couple (Thomas and Ann Farrow)
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What was the FBI's original name?
The Indentification Division of the US Bureau of Investigation
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When was firearms analysis first used?
On a case in 1794
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What did Charles Waite and Clavin Goddrad do?
The created the bureau of forensic ballistics in 1923
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Who created the Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory/ Northwestern University
Calvin Goddard
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When did America first use Blood Pattern Analysis?
The 1950's
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When was Blood Pattern Analysis first used?
In the times of Ancient Rome
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What chemical reveals blood?
Luminol
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What color is the glow of luminol?
Blue
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What does Corpus Deliciti mean?
The body of the crime / proof a crime has been committed
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What are a Froensic Anthropologists first steps?
Determine whether the body is Ancient, Historic, or contemporary.
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What's the difference between Ancient,Historic, and Contemporary?
Ancient - More than 150 yearsHistoric- Between 50 and 150 yearsContemporary- Less than 50 years
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When did the FBI form the Behavioral Science Unit
1972
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What blood type is the universal recipient
AB +
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What blood type is the universal donor
O -
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What is the CSI effect?
It is the the belief that DNA evidence is necessary to convict. It is also the belief that DNA evidence will automatically get a convection.
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How does a rape kit work?
A specific part of the female genatalia gets bruised if she is trying to pull away. They check for this - aswell as any left over semen, inorder to get a DNA match
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