Forensic Arson: Backward's Crime

attacking people with a knife or could also cause damage to property if they decided to detonate a

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

Any moist or wet biological evidence (blood, body fluids, plants, etc.) like the lottery ticket on the counter with the blood smeared print on it should be collected wearing gloves it should then be placed in a clean unused paper container such an envelope, and or small bag and transported back to an evidence receiving area, it should then be taken out of the bag and allowed to air dry thoroughly. The Ninhydrin process should be applied to this piece of evidence to obtain noticeable prints.

An initial requirement is to define the phenomenon of school shootings and the subcategories of incidents, the varying motives and identities of the perpetrators of school shootings. While rampage attacks are a difference in school shooting incidents that have captured the sculpted eye of mass media's attention in the last decade, a broader historical perspective reveals a wide range of school-related shooting incidents. the school-related mass murder incident, typically carried out by an individual who targets categories of individuals or the school institution in general. School-related mass murders are a branch of mass murder incidents, where an adult perpetrator, who is not a current or former student or employee, targets a school institution or group of students, selected for their importance. As in rampage cases, such incidents are sometimes labeled "postal-type shootings", and are typically people who desire power.

I think the procedures are different from normal crime scenes to those involving fire and explosions

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There was no educational part when it came to forensic science in the 1700’s- 1800’s.

On August 30, 1979 there was a fire that killed two children and one adult at their residence. Investigators concluded that the fire was an arson. They concluded this because of the heavy alligator charring on the floor that was misinterpreted as arson. The investigators felt this was due to a pool of Stoddard solvent, a liquid flammable substance, used to start the fire. In reality these markings were due to radiation effect from the fire, not arson. On March 26, 1980 Louis DiNicola was charged with arson and three counts of murder. Louis spent four years in prison before being on bail while awaiting retrial. He was granted a new trial from his appeal of this conviction. The basis for the retrial was that evidence from the original

The majority of research in this field is done by insurance companies who are suspected of searching for evidence of arson so that they won’t be required to pay off their policies. (Michael Shermer, Scientific American) Research like this is part of the reason for the misapplication of forensic methods.

One of the key indication that a homicide has been committed was the newspapers and smell of fuel in the residence. The smell of fuel was an obvious, since there is no explanation why fuel

William Armor of Illinois was recently released from prison and exonerated for a 1995 murder arson conviction that a judge vacated. William was accused of setting a fire which killed his mother-in-law. He was detained for two weeks and interrogated for 15 hours when he eventually confessed to the crime. He said he used vodka and a cigarette to set the fire. Earlier this year they looked into the case and three arson experts later determined that was scientifically impossible. He spent 22 years in prison wrongfully

Being an arson investigator requires both skillsets in fire science and in investigations. Once a fire has been reported and put out, it is the job of an arson investigator to go in and assist in determine what caused the fire, and if there was any criminal activity involved. Arson investigators of study fires by setting them and observing the results and damages of these fires. This important to the study of fire science because it provides investigators with an insight about how fire burn in different environments, with different accelerant and other changing conditions. This become useful when investigating fires that were not started in a controlled setting.

Purpose of this lab was to see which accelerants best burned the house and the different stages of burning. The accelerant that our group used was alcohol. It burned faster than the other accelerants. Other groups used accelerants such as: acetone, gasoline, and hand sanitizer. The acetone burned quickly and almost evaporated instantly. The hand sanitizer and gasoline were both quicker in the spread of the fire. Though alcohol and gasoline ignited quicker. For our group flashover only lasted eight seconds. Flashover happened so quick because there was complete combustion. You could see the flash over occur when the whole house was engulfed in flames as well as the whoosh sound. There was no conduction that we could physically touch unless we

Forensic science involves the use of science to solve criminal and civil crimes but mostly lies on the side of criminal investigations. It makes it possible to identify the criminals based on the DNA traces they leave behind. It involves analyses of blood, DNA and other evidences and later on uses the findings as evidence in the court of law. It helps in solving the various crimes in the world and this has been the greatest contributor to the growth of the sector. Cases that were previously considered impossible due to lack of evidenced tracing to the victim can now be solved using forensic science evidences. The essay aims at analyzing the different aspects of forensic science that are used in the process of solving criminal activities. It will also look at the different cases that forensic science was used to solve crimes in a court of law.

A small percentage arsonists are driven by a mental condition known as pyromania, which is an irresistible urge to set fires combined with an intense fascination for flames (Bartol & Bartol). These fire setters claim they have no control over their fire setting impulses.