Case Study: LHS Forensic Club

Background/Crime Scene: On the evening of November 26th, 2000 a sixteen-year-old girl named Leanne Tiernan went missing. She was walking back from shopping with her friend and took a shortcut back home. Not until 9 months later in August of 2001 was her body found. A man walking his dogs in Lindley Woods found her body. Her body was in a shallow grave. Over her was a duvet cover that had a floral pattern. She was wrapped in ten plastic green bags with twine wrapped around them to keep them together. She had three cable ties around her wrists one yellow on one wrist, one black on the other, and a second black tie to connect the other two ties together very much like a daisy chain. She had a plastic bag around her head with a dog collar to hold

Answer: False 3) All Pollen & Spores are produced continuously throughout the year. Answer: False 4) With the exception of bacterial endospores, pollen & spores are reproductive structures. Answer: True 5) Spores are produced only by fungi. Answer: False 6) Flowering plants or angiosperms are the only plants that produce pollen. Answer: False 7) Pollen & Spore identification can provide important trace evidence in solving crimes dues to their

Business This section includes everything that is a “must have” for forensics. This encompasses the syllabus, handbook, team contact sheet, tourney schedule, etc… I also decided to include my first semester goal as well as my “event definitions” because I can’t deny that I sometimes forget specific characteristics of an event. Overall, these items were chosen to be included because they are undeniably the most important documents we have in forensics. When we can’t find our tourney sheet when doing sign-ups, we go into denial that we might have forgotten such an necessary piece of information. Since these were also a few of the first pieces of forensics papers that we encountered, we were in denial about the reality that school was in session.

Respondents have not proven that the means of discrimination used in the female-only Forensic Science Camp is substantially related to their alleged governmental interest.

I was once told that every entomologist has some sort of origin story – a distinctive moment when it became clear that they had a connection to insects. My story starts when I was eight, and I had just arrived home after school to find a red wasp perched right on the door handle to my house. I was so terrified of it that I went all the way around the back of the house and through the back door to avoid it. To my growing horror, I discovered that said wasp had decided to make a home in the left corner of our front entrance, and now I would have to wait for the bus cowering in fear of my new housemate.

Forensics is an extracurricular activity offered to students in 6th, 7th & 8th grade. The purpose of middle school forensics is to build self-confidence and oral competency by developing and practicing fundamental public speaking skills.

Module Five: Text Questions Review Questions 1. What is the NIBIN? NIBIN is the National Integrated Ballistic Identification Network that was created by the FBI and the ATF in 1999.

When dealing with incident cases having evidence it the most important part. Without evidence the justice system would not convict a suspect who is accused of committing a crime. There is an old saying amount law enforcement officer, “A case is only as strong as it evidence”. If a person views the definition of the word evidence, that person’s would find out that evidence, meaning, “The body of facts or information which can indicate whether a belief or proposition is valid or true.” (Forensic Science Investigation Unit, 2015). Many people can have different option or belief of many different situations, but when you can prove with facts or information that your belief or option is correct by using evidence to back up your statement. You have just changed that person mind or option due to the evidence. When evidence is used in the court room, it can prove whether the person is guilt or innocence of the crime he or she was accused of committing. Evidence to a jury in a courtroom setting can be used as a body of information to tell if this person who is accused of committing this crime had a motive, opportunity and the ability to commit such at toward another person or someone’s property.

Forensic science is the science associated with criminal investigations. Investigators collect the evidence found at crime scenes to gather more information about the crime. In Forensic Science, the class has covered different chapters of topics that has to do with types of evidence. The information in the chapters explained to the class what forensic science really is. A few of the interesting topics were hair analysis, fingerprints, and evidence collection.

Forensic Science owes much of its development to countless people over thousands of years. Scientists from around the world are credited with expanding the doctrines and procedures used to classify or contrast physical information acquired from a crime scene. Also these scientists saw the need to consolidate these various concepts into logical methods that could be applied within the Criminal Justice system. However, while the acceptance of science in criminal cases has been around since before the Roman Empire, the idea of forensic science as a career is not quite 100 years old.

There are many T.V. shows about crimes, and make the work look simple, but it is way harder in real life. The crime scene investigators have to involve a lot of different specialties to find the suspect and who the victim’s family is.There are people that examine the body, they are forensic anthropologist. They find the cause of death from only the bones of the victim. Federal agents from the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) are some of the main investigators if there is a homicide but not if there is a suicide. Investigating a crime scene takes a lot of difficult and puzzling labor. It could take hours to find the killer and family or it could take days or months.

I think the career that is best for me right now is a Forensic Scientist. A Forensic Scientist is a person who examines and proves whether a person on trial is guilty or not. Forensic Scientists work in labs and test things like blood, drugs, and DNA to gather evidence for a case. These results are then used in court to help solve the case. A Forensic Scientist's job can be exiting, interesting, and even scary at the same time. You never know what the next case you are going to receive is going to be. It could be as little as finding a fingerprint on a gun, to gathering blood and DNA in a murder case. Being a Forensic Scientist never has a dull moment, and that's why I feel like it is the perfect job for me. I always wanted a job that was interesting and mysterious, and being a Forensic Scientist fits that perfectly.

In the District of Columbia, I had the chance to volunteer/intern at the Superior Court, in their social services division. There they have the child guidance clinic that works on the welfare of child and those who cause a lot of trouble and get in trouble with the law. That clinic began in March of 1996, helping and providing mental health evaluations and reports to probation officers and judges of the Family Court. These forensic evaluations are for the assisting of the child’s life, so whether they do a psychological evaluation, sex offender risk, psycho-educational, violence risk, parenting competency, neuropsychological, transfer or waiver.

RESEARCH ASSINGMENT 1 After going through the internet websites that you have listed. I found a few disciplines that I never thought of being in the forensic field. For instance; digital and multimedia science. But as technology expands so will fields in forensics. But with all the new fields emerging. Four of the fields stood out to me. Funny thing is these four fields have always held an equal amount of interest to me. Death investigations, Anthropologie, Psychology, and my first love Forensic pathology.

One of the questions that have been presented toward the law enforcement field is whether or not forensic science should be trusted when presented as evidence in a court case. Some people believe that forensic science has evolved well enough and has now become a legitimate way to know what happened during a crime. Other people believe that it is an inaccurate method of determining what happened during a crime and that it is not appropriate to present as evidence and should rely on other methods instead.