FS Ch. 2 Crime Scene Investigation

The documented and unbroken transfer of evidence.

• Chain of Custody

• Direct Evidence

• Circumstantial evidence

• Class Evidence

Evidence used to imply a fact but not support it directly.

• Individual Evidence

• Circumstantial Evidence

• Direct Evidence

• Class Evidence

Material that connects an individual or a thing to a certain group.

• Circumstantial Evidence

• Direct Evidence

• Class Evidence

• Datum Point

A multidisciplinary approach in which scientific and legal professionals work together to solve a crime.

• Chain of Custody

• Class Evidence

• Direct Evidence

• Crime-Scene Investigation

A hypothesis of the sequence of events from before the crime was committed through it commission.

• Crime-Scene Investigation

• Crime-Scene Reconstruction

• First Responder

• Individual Evidence

A permanent, fixed point of reference used in mapping a crime scene.

• Datum Point

• Paper Bindle

• Direct Evidence

• Chain of Custody

Evidence that (if authentic) supports an alleged fact of a case.

• Datum Point

• Secondary Crime Scene

• Subdatum Point

• Direct Evidence

The first safety official to arrive at a crime scene.

• First Responder

• Direct Evidence

• Primary Crime Scene

• Reliable

A kind of evidence that identifies a particular person or thing.

• Direct Evidence

• Individual Evidence

• Trace Evidence

• Class Evidence

A folded paper used to hold trace evidence.

• Primary Crime Scene

• Secondary Crime Scene

• Trace Evidence

• Paper Bindle