C EHC 101 Midterm: Exam 2 Study Guide at UAlbany

• School: SUNY Albany
• Department: Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity
• Course: C EHC 101
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Crime scene evidence storage was really bad. Medical examiner should have looked for different types of injuries. Toxicology- tissues, organs, and body fluids are retained. Pathologist-can rarely give an exact time of death. Algor mortis- cooling of the body temp 0-30hrs. Livor mortis-setting of blood in areas of the body 20mins after death-16hrs. News of case did not reach capital. Fingerprint remains unchanged during an individual"s lifetime. Principle 2- traumatic injury that cuts off fingerprint. Informative- sex, ridge density, ethnicity- characteristics, age age of fingerprint. Third principle- loops,whorls,arches-60-65% are loops, 30-35% are whorls, 5% are arches. Comparison lvl3-ridge pores, breaks, creases, scars, ridge thickness. Black dahlia-january 15 1947, leimert park california, fingerprint submitted to fbi, found out identity in 56mins-elizabeth short. January 24- los angeles examiner gets mail with birth certificate and other stuff. Iafis-july 1999, maintained by fbi, national fingerprint and criminal history system over 100million subjects, 63,000 submissions a day, three functions- repository of criminal history.