Section 1.1 Flashcards
Who was a famous serial killer and her DNA was found in numerous murder scenes from 1993-2009?
Phantom of Heilbronn
Who did not just commit murder cases but all different kinds of crimes and across three different countries?
Phantom of Heilbronn
What three different countries were crimes committed by the Phantom of Heilbronn?
Germany
France
Austria
The officers kept finding the same person’s DNA and it was so bad in the late 90s that someone offered 300k Euro reward. What case was this associated with?
Phantom of Heilbronn
All the officers knew at first about the phantom of Heilbronn was that she was a female of Eastern European descent. True or False
True
There were never any witnesses when their should have been. Example, there was a bank robbery and witnesses and there were four guys and when the police left the DNA only showed four men’s DNA and there was a fifth persons DNA that was a female.
Story during the time of Phantom of Heilbronn.
MO stands for what?
Modus Operandi
Mode of operation
The phantom of Heilbronn did not have an overlapping MO. True or False
True. Sometimes it was a shooting or a stabbing
There was a giant red flag that finally solved the case on the Phantom of Heilbronn. They took a dead body for DNA and the DNA come back as the phantom of Heilbronn. True or False
True
Every single police department that had found her DNA had sourced their cotton swabs from the exact same factory. The DNA was from?
A lady who worked at the cotton swab factory who did not wash her hands and got her DNA all over the cotton swabs.
The Phantom of Heilbronn had been a ghost serial killer for how many years?
16
Investigators took so long to complete the investigation. Why?
they got so caught up that DNA was perfect and they overlooked all of the giant red flags
Do not get so focused on one answer that you ignore any other possibilities!
TRUTH
All the police across three countries were so focused on DNA and trying to find her that she never existed as a killer. Never get so focused on a crime that you ignore ______ ______ _______.
Giant Red Flags
Term: Looking around trying to find evidence of a crime and who committed the crime.
Investigations
Prior to 1748 people would still get taken to trial and given the death penalty without scientific evidence because there was no what?
Fielding Investigations
England hired a guy to help out because there was a lot of crimes in London. Who was this?
Henry Fielding
Henry Fielding decides to do something new and hires a bunch of people to go out and investigate crimes and ask people questions. What were these people called?
Bow Street Runners
Did the bow street runners have success?
Midland success
Who was a really successful guy that has books written about him?
Vidocg
Who was a criminal that came to good graces with the people who were powerful, and started helping them to catch other criminals?
Vidocg
The French police hired this guy to catch more criminals and he hired other criminals to go catch even more criminals. Who was this?
Vidocg
Vidocg and his men are hugely successful because they can get into places under cover because they look the part. What was created due to their success?
Vidocg Society
There are all kinds of investigators from all different investigative fields. There are only 150 members allowed at one time.
Vidocg Society
What does the Vidocg society volunteer to do?
Solve cold cases
Who were professional detectives with uniforms?
Scotland Yard
Where is Scotland yard located?
England
Who was a detective who went out one night on the river and saw a campfire on an island in the middle of the river?
Pinkerton
Pinkerton went to the police and they went to the island and waited for the campfire to start up and they did a huge bust. The officers saw that Pinkerton was really good and they wanted him to start doing this. Pinkerton decided to start what?
Pinkerton Detective Agency
Is Pinkerton detective agency still in business today?
Yes
Before the secret service existed who protected the president and failed with Lincoln and caused the secret service to be created?
Pinkerton
Pinkerton becomes detectives for hire. True or False
Ture
Bertillon develops Anthropometry. True
True
Anthropometry
Anthro-
Pometry-
Anthro- Human
Pometry- measure
Before photography it was just the height, weight, scars, tattoos, eye color, hair color. With Anthropometry you could look at the record to see this information and if the person had been arrested before. True
True
Because of Anthropometry is become harder for people to lie about who they were because across cities the officers could look up information about the people. True of False
True
Who was responsible for the exchange principal?
Lockard
Every time you walk into a room you take something away and you leave something behind. It could be a little or a lot. True or False and who is responsible for this?
True
Lockard
Example, if there is a murder scene with blood everywhere you can guarantee that
a.
b.
something was left at the scene
something was taken away form the scene
How investigations work today. We have an assumption that in every crime scene that something will be left by the suspect and there will be something that he took away from the scene. True or False
True
