Lesson: Questioned Documents

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is NOT an example of questioned documents

• ransom notes

• lottery tickets

• driver's licenses

• photo on your passport

Multiple Choice

What type of evidence is handwriting?

• class evidence

• individual evidence

• none of the above

Multiple Choice

What government agency maintains FISH?

• FBI

• CIA

• Secret Service

• Attorney General

Multiple Choice

This characteristic of handwriting that compares the strokes between upper and lower case letters

• line quality

• connecting strokes

• baseline habits

• slant

Match

Match the following

• baseline habits

• line quality

• flourishes

• relative size

• unusual letter formation

letters stay straight or move up & down

lines are smooth, free-flowing, or shaky

fancy letters, curls, loops, etc

height, width, & size of letters

letters with tails, backwards letters

• letters stay straight or move up & down

• lines are smooth, free-flowing, or shaky

• fancy letters, curls, loops, etc

• height, width, & size of letters

• letters with tails, backwards letters

Multiple Choice

What is needed to collect by investigators to compare handwriting from a ransom note to a potential suspect's handwriting?

• cancelled checks from their bank account

• known exemplars

• online search history

• rewrite the ransom note while in police custody

Match

Match the following terms & definitions

• Additions

• Erasures

• Obliterations

• Charred documents

adding content to a prepared document

most common, when type/writing removed

adding agents to make unreadable

accidentally or purposely set on fire

• adding content to a prepared document

• most common, when type/writing removed

• adding agents to make unreadable

• accidentally or purposely set on fire

Multiple Choice

This type of test is done to test & differentiate inks used on an altered document

• thin layer chromatography

• gel electrophoresis

• mass spectrometry

• gas chromatography