Forensic Science- Footprint Impressions

How can you tell if a person was carrying something from their footprint impression?

• You can tell

• All of their impressions will be deeper, right and left

• Their foot impressions will be deeper on one side, right verses left

• Their impressions will fade away some

Foot Length= Height*(0.15). On average, what would be the footprint size for a 6’2’’ suspect.

• 11.0 to 11.5

• 10.0 to 10.5

• 9.0 to 9.5

• 12.0 to 12.5

Deep footprints with the front pressed deeper than the rest of the print and a long stride indicate what?

• playing

• laying down

• running

• walking

Deep consistent footprints may give information about what?

• a person's height

• how much money they have

• their weight

• how slow they were walking

What are two types of 2 dimensional prints?

• latent and visible impressions

• right and wrong impressions

• positive and negative impressions

• upper and lower impressions

To preserve 3 dimensional impressions.....

• a casting has to be made

• remove the footprint with a piece of plastic

• take a photograph of the impression

• sketch the impression on paper

Dust prints can be lifted using what....

• a shovel

• a napkin

• a piece of paper

• a film of plastic

An example of an individual characteristic for a footprint would be.....

• the style of the print

• the size of the print

• the depth of the print

• wear patterns in the print

An example of a class characteristic in a footprint would be.....

• wear patterns on the footprint

• cracks in the footprint

• the tread patterns on the print

• embedded objects in the footprint

Which type of prints would have a narrow window in which to recover them?

• water footprints

• footprints in dirt

• footprints in blood

• footprints in ink