Dorm Effect

The understanding of blood spatter patterns is not a widely recognized forensic practice. Bloodstain pattern interpretation (BPI) is commonly used in murder investigations, but could be utilized in everything from simple assault to mass murders if the number of trained professionals increased. BPI can reveal critical information into reinventing a given crime scene. Everything from the number of blows, stabs or shots a victim was given, the movement that was undergone by the victim and assailant after bloodshed began, position of objects at the crime scene and the type of weapon, if any, that was used can be uncovered.

On April 13 at approximately 10:00pm Rupert and Rupina Clodhopper returned home to find their back patio door had been broken into. The police questioned them about the $10,000 in jewelry the kept in a wall safe. They said only six of their employees, Mike, Bob, Chris, Mary, Susan, and Jessica, knew about it. The police evidence technician team found broken glass and a glove with blood on it. The glass was from the glass window pane of the patio door. Each employee was then asked about their whereabouts during the time of the robbery and to give blood samples. The purpose of this lab is to find out who broke into the Clodhoppers home by testing the blood samples from the employees and the glove. Analysis:

CASE STUDY #2: Bennett Barbour Ronald Cotton’s case study is only one from hundreds of people who have been sent to jail for a crime they did not commit. Bennett Barbour, a 22-year-old man whose wife was pregnant with their first child was put in jail even when all the evidence was going against him except for the eyewitness. On February 7, 1978, a nineteen-year-old girl and Mary were sexually assaulted at gunpoint. After the incident, the victim called the police and gave a detailed description of the assailant. She told them that he weighed about 145 pounds and was about 5’6 tall.

Throughout the course of the investigation, the blood evidence found inside the van was not Hartlaub's. Enzymes from the blood spatter, which is only

Bloodstain pattern analysis (BPA) is a visually intensive forensic discipline that dedicates its resources to the deterministic signs of a violent crime (James, Kish, & Sutton, 2005). BPA seeks to define the facts surrounding an incident in question helping define an objective history for an event (Bevel, & Gardner, 2008). Bloodstain pattern analysis is based on a simple theory stating that the fluid characteristics of blood will react to any external forces in a predictable and plausible fashion. (James, Nordby, & Bell, 2014). In due course, these bloodstain patterns define the nature of the event that created them which subsequently the analyst evaluates to determine the "static aftermath" of the event (Bevel, & Gardner, 2008). In sum, BPA can be defined as a deductive and inductive analysis following the scientific method

BackTrack is another bloodstain pattern analysis automation software program that aids in crime scene reconstruction. A crime scene where bloodstains only from downward-moving drops are available can be analyzed by this program. Spatter evidence can be digitally and graphically analyzed using this program by using what is known as “visual strings”. By entering the width, length, direction, and position of each blood droplet into the computer, the software calculates an angle of path for each droplet then projects a flight path backward from each. The position of the wound can be determined by analyzing where two or more of the projections intersect. Directional Analysis is used to determine virtual string directions for each bloodstain that

There are several steps involved in the management of an outbreak. Once an outbreak situation is determined, management begins with verifying the diagnosis and creating a case definition (CDC, 2006). Information is recorded once cases are found. This information includes organizing the data and summarizing it in regards to who was infected, when the illness started, and where they might have been exposed (Macha & McDough). Hypothesis are created, evaluated and tested. Next, the lab evidence must be compared and reconciled. According to Principles of Epidemiology in Public Health Practice

I didn’t go home for the next seventy hours. I came up with a strategy of finding the family friend that went missing and re-exam the crime scene, where I thought the incident occurred but I was told by the other agencies that I had no proof that the crime occurred at this location. By using your partners to implement different product strategies to avoid adverse outcomes is the same concept that I use to investigate the case Lee (2014). A team of Investigators went back to the scene to look at what we possibly missed, I then noticed while at the home a spot of blood, which was located in the shed and later tested and soon determined that it was the blood of one of the victims. The friend of the victims could not be found and had cut off his phone, this begin to have a dark cloud over the

The patient is an 8 year old African American boy from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The boy was brought into the hospital by his mother. The patient’s mother is HIV positive, and she is worried that the HIV virus transmitted to her son. At the time of admission, the patient reported having a huge headache. The doctors decided to take a blood test to figure out if he indeed has HIV. The patient was diagnosed with HIV later that evening. The patient had

Being at a military academy our dorm rooms are supposed to be uniform and sparkling clean. My dorm room looks similar to the numerous others at this academy, but it includes minute touches that molds the room into my own. First off, the thing I remember most about my room is the cleanliness and purity of the room, but yet it still somehow manages to have that appearance of being worn and exhausted. The smell of Lysol smacks me right in the face along with the hint of mustiness in the air. In addition to the smell I hear the slight hum of the air conditioner running nonstop, which leads the room to feel as if I am in the freezer section at Walmart. The next element of the room I notice is the floors. Even if I had just mopped the floors they

The program will measure if the reproductive health education is reducing unintended pregnancies in the two high schools, as well as assessing the knowledge of the “Reproductive Life Plan” among the students. This will be done by creating a pre and post evaluation survey in which will incorporate qualitative and quantitative data. These surveys will be handed out to the 9th grade students in the health science class at the beginning and at the end of the fall and spring semester. For the evaluation process, we will be adopting the five dimensions of the RE-AIM Model which include: reach, efficacy, adoption, implementation, and maintenance (PMC, 2010). The outcome data will be share to the high schools’ administrators and the school base clinics’

How often the patient has sex, the number of sex partners the patient has, if the patient wants to have children someday, how well each method works to prevent pregnancy, the patient’s age, the patient’s health, possible side effects, or the patient’s comfort level with using the method. Even the most effective birth control methods can fail. But chances of getting pregnant are

The objective of this experiment is to determine what antigens are present in each blood sample and from there, determine what blood type that translates to. Blood types are determined by the presence or absence of two antigens, A or B. (Martini) An antigen is a substance that induces the production of antibodies. (Martini) Antibodies are involved with the immune system; they will bind to an antigen and work to remove it from the body. In a blood system, there are four blood types; A, B, AB and O. Blood type A contains A antigen and B antibodies, group B posses the B antigen and the A antibody, AB blood group has A and B antigens but no antibodies and O group has no antigens, but both A and B antibodies. (Martini) When an opposite blood type is introduced, it causes agglutination, where clumps form in the blood. (Martini) These clumps form because the antibody bonded with the opposite antigen and then thickened. (Martini) This is dangerous for the body and this is the reason blood typing is so important while performing transfusions.

What are the contributing factors of the prevalence in teenage pregnancy among the under 18 years old in London Borough of Lambeth over the last decade?

Infections with in the human race went undiagnosed until the molecular detection methods that were able to distinguish P.