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| A substance, such as gasoline, used to assist the ignition and spread of a fire. |
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| The collective total of the average daily temperature; used as an indicator in calculating time since death. |
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| The waxy, soaplike substance formed during the decomposition of a body; consist mainly of fatty tissues; sometimes referred to as grave wax |
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| Automated Fingerprint Identification System |
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| The reduction of body temperature after death |
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| A light source other than a laser that luminesces latent fingerprints, as well as body fluids; also referred to as the forensic light source. |
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| The science of the origin, development and culture of humans |
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| Automated Palm print Identification System |
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| Term used in bloodstain pattern analysis; the area in space where the violence or bloodshed took place. |
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| An ion laser used to detect latent fingerprints |
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| Deliberate and Intentional setting of a fire |
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| Bloodstain pattern caused by blood exiting the body under the pressure of a punctured artery. |
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| a person who can not only recover latent prints from a scene but can process evidence |
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| Locard's exchange principle |
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| When someone comes into contact with another person or walks in a room they leave evidence |
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| Chemical used to detect presence of blood |
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| All ridge detail in the palms, joints, tips, sides of fingers |
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| Also known as MO, the way it was caused |
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| Records data electronically |
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| Physician who determines cause of death |
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| Shriveling and drying of a body |
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| Used to detect latent fingerprints |
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| Trained in the cause of death by disease through examination of fluids, cell and tissue samples. |
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| Small hemorrhages that occur beneath the skin, typicaly in the eyelids. Strangulation or Asphyxiation |
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| Time period between death and discovery |
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| Distortion of a body that is being burned |
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| Decomposition of soft tissues |
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| Blood originally part of a bigger stan leaves through force |
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| Object with blood comes into contact with an object that is not stained |
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| Brownish black round spots caused by capillaries rupturing |
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| Thermoelectric devise used to accurately measure temperatures |
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| Physical evidence that can only be detected by special processing |
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| invisible band of radiation at the upper end of the spectrum |
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| Thermal pattern formed by fire as it burns against a wall, usually indicates origin |
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| The major end products of microbial activity in the digestic tract resulting in fluids |
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| Stain caused by an object coming across a bloodstain already on another item. |
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