Footprints And Footwear: Undervalued At A Crime Scene

November 26, 2000 sixteen year old Leanne Tiernan mysteriously disappeared after a shopping trip with a friend. Her sudden disappearance led to a nine month long search in hopes of finding her still alive. During August of 2001, the body of Leanne Tiernan was found in Lindley Woods about ten miles away from her home in West Yorkshire, United Kingdom. A man walking his dog in the park, discovered the body in a shallow grave. A plastic bag was wrapped around Leanne’s head, was held in place with a dog collar while a scarf and cable tie were wrapped around her neck as well as bonding her wrists together. The body was then wrapped in plastic liners and secured with twine (“Forensic Cases: The Murder,” 2015). The key evidence collected from the scene was the dog collar, the scarf, and twine.

Law enforcement agencies have relied on forensic art as one of their investigation methods for many years. The job of a forensic artist is quite difficult because he or she must reconstruct an image of an individual based on just hearsay and memory from another individual. The purpose of this study is to research forensic artists, also known as sketch artists, and their ability to draw up a suspect through the information provided by a witness. Interviews on two different forensic artists provide insight of the duties and hardships a law enforcement sketch artist takes on. The process of how law enforcement sketch artists are able to recreate the face of another individual, and how that picture can be a very useful piece of evidence for crime reports will also be addressed throughout the study. This study is relevant to anthropology because it touches on how how an individual perceives those around them and forensics itself is also one of the key topics discussed in biological anthropology.

Occasionally, investigators may find other types of impressions left at a crime scene. “This evidence may take the form of a shoe, tire, or fabric impression.” (Saferstien p. 235). It is crucial that the impression is preserved, and photographed with a scale. Several photographs should be taken that show obvious detail. A reproduction of the impression should be made and sent to the lab for investigation. If this is not possible, impressions may be preserved and lifted. Lifting material placed over an impression, or even a more advanced material that involves an electrostatic lifting device along with Mylar is available to help transfer it to a film.

Fingerprints are found on surfaces due to the friction ridges that are on each one of our hands. Sweat, body oils, and dirt are just a few of the things that these friction ridges hold on to which in turn assists in creating fingerprints on any kind of smooth surface that an individual may touch. Fingerprints are used to assist in capturing the individual, who was at the crime scene when the crime was perpetrated. In the same way as fingerprints, impressions are just as vital within a court case. Impression evidence is critical to a case because they could confirm that a perpetrator was at the location where the crime took place. Furthermore, tire marks are also vital to any case because they can assist in recognizing the model of vehicle that was at the crime location. Furthermore, digital evidence is data gathered or sent in binary form that may be depended on in a court proceeding. Digital evidence is latent, quick, as well as accessible, easily alterable, and can be sensitive to

I observed boot prints in the basement, the flooring was dirt and wet. After looking at the imprint I asked the defendant to lift his foot to look at his boot print. The markings were the same. The boot prints were observed in areas of the basement where the copper piping was already cut from the ceiling. One of the areas observed was the north east corner of the basement. This area was difficult to get to due to the amount of items scattered and stacked. To get to this area it required the person to crawl and climb over the items placed in the

Crime scenes are known to have many clues left behind. The obvious would be a the body or bodies, clothing, and sometimes even the murder weapon. While these are great way to solve a case there's another kind of evidence; trace evidence. Trace evidence are small pieces of evidence that are laying around a crime scene. There are many types of trace evidence some of them include metal filings, plastic fragments, gunshot residue, glass fragments, feathers, food stains, building materials, lubricants, fingernail scrapings, pollens and spores, cosmetics, chemicals, paper fibers and sawdust, human and animal hairs, plant and vegetable fibers, blood and other body fluids, asphalt or tar, vegetable fats and oils, dusts and other airborne

In the United States, crimes are constantly being committed. Some of the crimes that are committed are simple, and other crimes are extremely complex. Every complex crime comes with its own challenges in distinguishing material evidence. Some evidence can be tiny as a hair, or a fiber that can be located on a piece of clothing or carpet. Even though, the size of the evidence is not important, the information that it provides investigators is crucial to finding the suspect of the crime. With the assistance of trace evidence, investigators can obtain the small particles that can transfer from two objects come together. Collecting material from any crime scene can yield a plethora of information. However, by properly collecting material evidence like the tire print impression, pubic hairs, multiple dog hairs, and foreign fibers. Investigators, were able to convict Cecil Sutherland for kidnapping, sexual assault, and three counts of murder.

We predict that if the samples are identical then the suspect was the criminal. We think the samples from the shoe of the suspect do not match with the sample from the crime scene.

I read the book “Fingerprints and talking bones” written by Charlotte Foltz Jones. I choose to read this book because in the introduction it has been told that every criminal takes something but always leaves a clue that can lead the detectives right to him.As an example it can be said that”every mystery of a crime can be solved by any piece of evidence left no matter how small or big”.I also choose this book because it has everything about evidence that leads to a concluding point to the text.

Introduction The purpose of this paper is to critically analyze and question the role of forensic anthropologist portrayed through the television show “Bones” to the real world. (Wood, 2014a) The significance of evaluating the episode of “Bones” is to understand and compare the real world verse the role of forensic anthropologist portrait in the episode “The He in the She”.(Smith, 2014). The comparison of the real world verse the show, allows us to have a deeper understanding of the forensic anthropologist role, by evaluating the methods found in the episode.

on evidence found at a crime scenes such as: hair, DNA, blood, fibers, fingerprints, documents,

ForensicOrensic anthropology is the examination of human skeletal remains for law enforcement agencies to determine the identity of unidentified bones. That is the definition of forensic anthropology. This paper will discuss the study of forensic anthropology: the education needed, how to study the remains, and work activities.

Animals and humans can leave their footprints across a crime scene by placing their foot/feet into something like mud or something

The most significant pieces of evidence being footprints. Many footprints that are left behind have five toes, unless occasionally you find the tracks with only three toes. According to Stephen Wagner, a paranormal researcher, Bigfoot footprints look like

Every time somebody touches something, they leave behind a unique signature that forever links them to that object. This link is their fingerprints, which are unique to every person, for no two people have the same set, not even family members or identical twins. Palms and toes also leave prints behind, but these are far less commonly found during crime scene investigations. Therefore, fingerprints provide an identification process that is applicable to background checks, biometric security, mass disaster identification, and most importantly, crime scene investigations. Fingerprints are so differentiated because they are made up of distinct patterns of ridges and furrows on the fingers. The ridges are the “raised” portions of the prints, and the furrows are the “recessed” portions. This perceived uniqueness has led some people to falsely accept fingerprint analysis as absolute scientific fact. Although overall fingerprints are reliable, there are definitely situations where their accuracy can come into question.