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TRIVIA TODAY - Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Greetings Infomaniacs,
Television shows like CSI, Cold Case, Bones, Law & Order,
NCIS, Criminal Minds, and Forensic Files have popularized
the area of forensic science. However, these glamorized
versions of the activities of forensic scientists don't
always represent the truth. Here are some facts from the
fascinating field of forensics...
Enjoy!
Melissa
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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "The scientist is not a person who gives the right
answers, but the one who asks the right questions."
HINT: (1908-), French-Jewish anthropologist.
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RANDOM TIDBITS
The word forensics derives from the Latin forensis meaning
"of the forum, or public" because the law is a matter of
public interest. In Ancient Rome, the Forum was where the
law courts were located. The modern meaning of the word
"forensic" pertains to the law or justice system.
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Locard's Principle states that when two objects touch,
there is a transfer of material from one to the other, and
this trace evidence is the basis of forensic science. Dr.
Edmond Locard opened the world's first police crime
laboratory in 1910 in Lyon, France.
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The first application of forensic entomology (the study of
insects) dates back to 1235 in China in a book entitled The
Washing Away of Wrongs. Following a murder in a rural
village by slashing with a sickle, the local death
investigator assembled the farmers and laid their sickles
out in the sun. Flies began settling on only one sickle,
due to minute traces of blood and tissue still present,
despite it having been washed. The owner of that sickle
then confessed.
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In 1984, Sir Alec Jeffreys developed the first DNA profiling
(genetic fingerprinting) test. In 1987, it was first used
to identify Colin Pitchfork as the murderer of two young
girls in Narborough in the English Midlands. Also in 1987,
DNA profiling was used for the first time in an American
criminal court to convict Tommy Lee Andrews of a series of
sexual assaults in Orlando, Florida.
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Britain's experience with DNA databases has provided some
interesting statistics. The UK DNA data base averages about
300 successful hits per week. About 30 percent of these are
'cold hits', demonstrating probable links between the crime
scene and a suspect where the police had no prior indication
of a connection.
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train crashes, approximately 93 percent of identifications
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QUOTE: "The scientist is not a person who gives the right
answers, but the one who asks the right questions."
ANSWER: Claude Levi-Strauss.
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