The Crime Scene Investigator and the Forensic
Pathologist questions with verified answers
12 Steps to a successful crime scene investigation Ans✓✓✓ CSI. Approach the
Scene
CS2. Secure and Protect the Scene
CS3. Preliminary Survey of the Scene
CS4. Narrative Description of the Scene
CS5. Photograph the Scene
CS6. Sketch the Scene
CS7. Evaluation of the Physical Evidence at the Scene
CS8. Detailed Search of the Scene
CS9. Collection, Recording, Marking and Preservation of Evidence
CS.10 Process the Scene for Latent Prints and Collect any Prints Developed
CS. 11 Final Survey!! - Stop and think of anything further that might be collected.
CS. 12 Release of the Crime Scene
ABMDI Ans✓✓✓ American Board of Medicolegal Death Investigators
Board Certification Examination - mediolegal death investigators Ans✓✓✓
content:
- knowledge and experience of general medicolegal death investigation
- broad Forensic Sciences based on Associate Degree
length: 5.5 hours
,where: online at local colleges and universities.
format: 2 sections
PART 1. A Performance Section-This portion consists of three medicolegal death
scene scenarios. You will be asked to:
• Write a narrative description of the scene in the space provided using medical
terminology.
• Develop a set of up to 10 questions that could be used to interview witnesses
and/or suspects
• Develop a list of up to 5 pieces of potential evidence.
• All answers should be based solely on information provided in the case scenario
and depicted in the scene photographs. Since you only have 30 minutes for each
case, you DO NOT need to interpret findings, solve the case or develop a
complete case report.
PART 2: A Multiple Choice Section - consisting of 240 multiple choice test items.
You have up to 4 hours to complete this, which is divided into the following 8
sections:
• Investigating Specific Death Scenes
• Investigating Multiple Fatalities
• Investigating Atypical Death Scenes
• Investigating Institutional Deaths
• Demonstrating Leadership Skills
• Demonstrating Legal Knowledge
• Communication Skills
• Demonstrating Advanced Forensic Science Knowledge
, causes of death Ans✓✓✓ 1. GSW
2. disease
3. trauma
4. poision
Chain of Custody Ans✓✓✓ - is of paramount importance. It is the unbroken
sequence of events that is caused by an item of evidence from the time it is found
at the crime scene to the time it appears in court. Every link in this chain is
documented, from discovery at the crime scene, through evidence gathering,
storage, lab analysis, return to storage, and transfer to court. Every link is
documented by date, time, handling individual, what was done with the evidence
by that individual. If chain of custody is broken, it is rendered inadmissible;
useless to the case.
corner responsibilities present day Ans✓✓✓ 1. to make inquiry into a death in
their area
2. complete the certificate of death (record cause and manner of death)
3. decide if a death was due to foul play
coroner Ans✓✓✓ - is a public official, appointed or elected, in a particular
geographic jurisdiction, whose official duty is to make inquiry into deaths in
certain categories
do you need a degree to become a medicolegal death investigator? what type of
education is useful? Ans✓✓✓ no.
• There are no formal educational requirements specifically for medicolegal death
investigation.
Pathologist questions with verified answers
12 Steps to a successful crime scene investigation Ans✓✓✓ CSI. Approach the
Scene
CS2. Secure and Protect the Scene
CS3. Preliminary Survey of the Scene
CS4. Narrative Description of the Scene
CS5. Photograph the Scene
CS6. Sketch the Scene
CS7. Evaluation of the Physical Evidence at the Scene
CS8. Detailed Search of the Scene
CS9. Collection, Recording, Marking and Preservation of Evidence
CS.10 Process the Scene for Latent Prints and Collect any Prints Developed
CS. 11 Final Survey!! - Stop and think of anything further that might be collected.
CS. 12 Release of the Crime Scene
ABMDI Ans✓✓✓ American Board of Medicolegal Death Investigators
Board Certification Examination - mediolegal death investigators Ans✓✓✓
content:
- knowledge and experience of general medicolegal death investigation
- broad Forensic Sciences based on Associate Degree
length: 5.5 hours
,where: online at local colleges and universities.
format: 2 sections
PART 1. A Performance Section-This portion consists of three medicolegal death
scene scenarios. You will be asked to:
• Write a narrative description of the scene in the space provided using medical
terminology.
• Develop a set of up to 10 questions that could be used to interview witnesses
and/or suspects
• Develop a list of up to 5 pieces of potential evidence.
• All answers should be based solely on information provided in the case scenario
and depicted in the scene photographs. Since you only have 30 minutes for each
case, you DO NOT need to interpret findings, solve the case or develop a
complete case report.
PART 2: A Multiple Choice Section - consisting of 240 multiple choice test items.
You have up to 4 hours to complete this, which is divided into the following 8
sections:
• Investigating Specific Death Scenes
• Investigating Multiple Fatalities
• Investigating Atypical Death Scenes
• Investigating Institutional Deaths
• Demonstrating Leadership Skills
• Demonstrating Legal Knowledge
• Communication Skills
• Demonstrating Advanced Forensic Science Knowledge
, causes of death Ans✓✓✓ 1. GSW
2. disease
3. trauma
4. poision
Chain of Custody Ans✓✓✓ - is of paramount importance. It is the unbroken
sequence of events that is caused by an item of evidence from the time it is found
at the crime scene to the time it appears in court. Every link in this chain is
documented, from discovery at the crime scene, through evidence gathering,
storage, lab analysis, return to storage, and transfer to court. Every link is
documented by date, time, handling individual, what was done with the evidence
by that individual. If chain of custody is broken, it is rendered inadmissible;
useless to the case.
corner responsibilities present day Ans✓✓✓ 1. to make inquiry into a death in
their area
2. complete the certificate of death (record cause and manner of death)
3. decide if a death was due to foul play
coroner Ans✓✓✓ - is a public official, appointed or elected, in a particular
geographic jurisdiction, whose official duty is to make inquiry into deaths in
certain categories
do you need a degree to become a medicolegal death investigator? what type of
education is useful? Ans✓✓✓ no.
• There are no formal educational requirements specifically for medicolegal death
investigation.
