Exam 1:Tactics, Procedures, and Forensic Techniques

Bite-mark and footwear impression evidence can be individualized and identify a specific suspect. However, footwear impressions are more specific than bite marks. Only recently has bite mark evidence been accepted in the courts.

Putrefactive gases include, cadaverine, butyl mercaptide, and other mercaptides as well as hydrogen sulfide and other sulfides.

Staging a scene occurs when the perpetrator purposely alters the crime scene to mislead and/or redirect the investigation. The most common type of staging occurs when the perpetrator attempts to make the death appear as a homicide to cover-up a suicide for insurance purposes.

If the body is warm to the touch, death occurred a few hours earlier. If the body is cold and clammy, the death may have occurred 18 to 24 hours earlier.

An incised wound generally has a clean edge. It is longer than it is deep and there isn't any bridging of skin.

SUICIDE-BY-COP is a police colloquialism used to describe incidents in which individuals, bent on self-destruction, engage in life-threatening and criminal behavior in order to force the police to kill them.

Gastrointestinal tract contents are the same as stomach contents.

Identical twins share the same DNA. They are genetic duplicates in that their chromosomes are identical.

In Gunshot Residue Testing (GSR), the most effective test to determine whether or not the subject handled a firearm is the:

In Practical Homicide Investigation we recommend that the investigators obtain a search warrant to protect the integrity of any evidence which is seized during a search. The four exceptions to the search warrant rule are emergency or exigent circumstances, evidence in plain view, pre-arrest search of an individual for weapons and contraband, and consent.

PLACE AN "O" FOR ORGANIZED AND A "D" FOR DISORGANIZED ON THE LINES BELOW INDICATING THE TYPE OF OFFENDER WHO ENGAGES IN THIS ACTIVITY -________ May take a body part as a remembrance or souvenir.

Evisceration is a sexually sadistic act in which the viscera are cut-out and/or are removed from the abdominal cavity. This type of psychopathology is found in both organized and disorganized offenders.

In Practical Homicide Investigation we describe the duties of the first arriving detective at the scene as follows: To OBSERVE, DESCRIBE, RECORD, and then COLLECT.

Which one of the following is NOT one of the five (5) components of Practical Homicide Investigation, which starts with teamwork?

An entrance wound is generally smaller than an exit wound.

Piquerism is a sadistic inclination to stab, pierce, or cut oneself. It is masochistic act.

A forensic entomologist can be helpful in making determinations of time factors in connection with an evaluation of insect larvae and maggots found on or near a dead human body.

Lust murders are committed by both Organized and Disorganized types of offenders.

There are four types of PHYSICAL EVIDENCE. These are: Transient Evidence, Pattern Evidence, Conditional Evidence, and Transfer evidence.

Most serial killers are psychopathic sexual sadists, who engage in their activities in an attempt to live out a sexual fantasy which features, domination, control, and violence that elicits suffering on the part of the victim.