Saturday, November 26, 2011

Forensics Project Part V: Create a Profile

In class, we were separated into groups of four or five to analyze five different clues found at a fake crime scene and make a profile of the criminal and the crime.  The clues were labeled one through five. Clue one was a set of four fingerprints from the right hand of somebody at the scene of the crime labeled one through four.  Our group identified print one to be a plain whorl, print two and three to be a double loop and print four to be an ulnar loop.  Clue two was a hair sample and when our group observed the evidence we thought it looked like it came from a Caucasian person with light brown or blonde hair.  Clue three was a note left by the kidnapper or murderer saying “You will never find her!”  The handwriting in the note looked loopy and could have possibly been written by a female.  This also let us know the victim was a female.  The handwriting also looked rushed meaning the criminal felt rushed.  Clue four was another hair sample which the grouped determined was from a dog or cat.  In the end we decided it looked more like cat hair than dog.  Clue five was a red fluid on a piece of paper.  Our group never identified what this was and I still do not know what it is. 

After observing and identifying all of these clues our group created the profile of the criminal and the crime.  We determined that there was a female victim, the criminal could also possibly be female due to the writing, the criminal looked rushed due to the writing in the note, the criminal seems to be instigating the crime investigators due to what the note says, either the victim or the criminal has light brown or blonde hair and either the victim or the criminal owns a cat. 
            Finally, after creating the profile from the known information we obtained from the evidence our group determined what the next steps in this investigation would be to continue on in the investigation.  We said that further testing would need to be taken on clue five to determine what it was and to find the victim to see if clue two (light brown/blonde hair) belonged to her and whether or not she owns a cat.     

4 comments:

  1. You were very detailed in you description but it would be helpful if you had pictures of each clue.

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  2. I agree, you do need more pictures, but I think that even if you don't the information if amazingly detailed, so you should be fine!

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  3. I like the way you explained your reasoning when explaining how the evidence tied in with the victims profile, very clear. It sucks we can't see pictures though! Sure it was good too(:

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  4. Thank you for your insightful comments! I agree with you on adding more pictures. I was trying to put a picture of each of the clues but again the way they were placed made the post look sloppy so I only put a picture of the clue I did not know to make the viewer make a few guesses at what the substance could be.

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