Chapter 9 - Crime Scene Inv. - Unit 1- Lesson 5

Question 1

Grid Search

Answer 1

often used indoors, this is a variation of the strip / line search pattern. Searchers overlap a series of lanes in a cross pattern, making the search more methodical and thorough.

Question 2

Spiral search

Answer 2

usually used outdoors by one person. The searcher begins at a certain point and walks in increasingly larger circles to the outermost boundary of the search area.

Question 3

Strip/Line search

Answer 3

usually used outdoors by several people. Divide the search area into lanes. Have one or more people search each lane by moving in both directions, examining all areas.

Question 4

Zone/Quadrant search

Answer 4

used for vehicle searches, both indoors and outdoors, or a large area. Divide the area into four different sections and search each area using one of the patterns above.

Question 5

Trace Evidence

Answer 5

is small quantities of material transferred from a victim or suspect to each other.

hair, textile fibers and fabric, rope, feathers, soil, glass, and building materials

Question 6

Biological evidence

Answer 6

Things that contain DNA like blood, seminal fluid, or saliva

Question 7

Impression evidence

Answer 7

Fingerprints, tire tracks, shoe prints, footprints, bite marks, tool marks

Question 8

Patent prints

Answer 8

A foreign substance, like wet paint, blood, grease, ink, or dirt, transfers and makes readily visible patent prints

Question 9

Plastic prints

Answer 9

a molded or embedded fingerprint that you can easily see, created by
touching an impressionable surface, such as fresh paint, wax, bar of soap, or mud

Question 10

Latent prints

Answer 10

result from body residues left behind when the friction ridges of the hands or feet make contact with a surface

Question 11

Elimination prints

Answer 11

allow fingerprint analysts to distinguish between prints belonging to either the victims and witnesses, or the possible suspects. To make this distinction, take fingerprints from anyone who may have been at the crime scene to eliminate their prints from the pool of suspects.

Question 12

Electronic evidence

Answer 12

can include cell phones, tablets, laptops, and desktops. Media storage can include thumb drives, external drives, removable disks, tapes, digital cameras, and other data storage equipment

Question 13

Questioned document evidence

Answer 13

Questioned documents need examination to verify that they could be evidence. Questioned documents may also contain latent fingerprints and DNA

Question 14

Chain of custody

Answer 14

to document everyone who handled the evidence as well as when, why, and what changes, if any, were made to it.