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    This weeks captured most wanted person is Rosemary Lorraine Godbolt-Molder. She is an African American female that is about five feet one inch tall and weighs 123 pounds. She has short black hair and brown eyes. She was wanted for the murder of her five year old stepson, Rayshon Omar Alexxander. The young male was brought to an army hospital in Fort Bliss, Texas with severe injuries that he later sub came to. The autopsy revealed multiple bruises and a skull fracture. During her trial in April of

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    this paper, the author will focus mainly about the character Dr. George Huang from the TV series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and aspects of his job. This paper will also focus on a couple other factors of the show such as, running blood or fingerprints, and how they may or may not be handled the same way in real life. Dr. Huang is a Forensic Psychiatrist as well as a FBI special agent. This paper will focus on the Forensic Psychiatrist/ Psychologist part of Dr. Huang’s job. This paper will talk

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    Department to get my fingerprints, as well as my palm prints done by a lady named Debbie Ayers. Mrs. Ayers works for the Federal Bureau of Investigation actually in the fingerprinting department, so it was nice because she had tons of interesting information about this subject! When it comes to fingerprinting, there are various types of inks and methods used to carry out the process. For instance, there is the chemical method which is where a red porelon pad ink is used. After the fingerprints are taken, the

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    genetic plan. What about fingerprint patterns? Are they inherited traits too? Fingerprints are used to identify Homo sapiens because each person has a unique fingerprint detail but has similar patterns. While doing this project, we will determine if fingerprint patterns are genetically inherited or randomly created. These different fingerprint patterns will be examined through both a magnifying glass and a microscope that will be compared and contrast with other fingerprints to figure out whether or

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    The main goal of this assignment is to identify the crime scene involved in Danielle Van Dame Case, and steps a forensic technician should take to process the crime scene. Danielle Van Dame Case: Quick Overall of the case. The evening of Friday, February 1, 2002 Brenda had a girl’s night out. Location was San Diego suburb of Sabre Springs. • Brenda Van Dame- mother of Danielle • Brenda’s husband- Damon • Danielle (7 years old), Danielle had two brothers. Damon put the children to bed at approximately

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    1984, when a British geneticist named Alec Jeffreys came across new methods for DNA fingerprinting (Jones, 2012). Since his discovery, this technique has been used successfully to identify perpetrators of crimes. For more than a century in fact, fingerprints have been used as identification tools by law enforcement. Known as “friction ridge analysis,” (Jones, 2012), this forensic method comprises of examiners comparing details of an unknown print against known prints. These details are analyzed

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    section also specifies that the staff will have a four-year degree from an accredited college or university with a major in forensic science, criminalistics, or in a physical or natural science, and one year of professional experience as a Latent Fingerprint Examiner in a forensic laboratory or in an identification division. However, if the individual has been in the discipline prior to December 2004, then the educational requirements may be waived. Finally, it specifies that there will be competency

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    these factors would be the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System or IAFIS. The Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System has helped to define the fields of law enforcement agencies such as the FBI and crime scene investigation. History of IAFIS The human fingerprint is fascinating; it is impossible to have two fingerprints that are identical to one another. Although it was realized early on that every person’s fingerprint is unique, the “science” of fingerprinting analysis

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    The usage of human fingerprints for identification has a long history, tracing back to the Chinese usage of fingerprints 200 BCE (International Association for Identification, et al., 1). The Qin Dynasty had records of handprint identification being used as evidence for investigations about burglary. It is not clear to what degree these methods were effective or accurate but this is the oldest known example of the usage of handprints for identification purposes. From this point, there are some sporadic

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    Fingerprint Pre-Historic Ancient artifacts comprising craving same as friction ridge skin have been identified throughout the world in number of places .In Nova Scotia hand with ridge patterns of picture writings was identified History of fingerprinting Study of fingerprints scientifically is termed as dactylography . Sir William James Herschel taught to be the first person to identify uniqueness in fingerprints India

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