Forensics – 2026 – Lecture Summary and Study Material
The study of insects and their relation to a criminal investigation, known as forensic entomology,
is commonly used to estimate the time of death when the circumstances surrounding the crime
are unknown - ANS✔✔ True
The process of individualization determines a substance's physical or chemical identity with as
near absolute certainty as existing analytical techniques will permit. - ANS✔✔ False
The following are three possible combinations of DNA characteristics that might be found in an
individual's genetic profile. Using he product rule, rank each of these combinations from most
common to least common. The number after each characteristic indicates its percentage
distribution in the population. (a) FGA 24,24 (3.6%), THO1 6,8 (8.1%), and D16S539 11,12 (8.9%)
(b) vWA 14,19 (6.2%), D21S11 30,30 (3.9%) and D13S317 12,12 (8.5%) (c) DSF1PO 9,10 (11.2%),
D18S51 14,17 (2.8%) and D8S1179 17,18 (6.7%) - ANS✔✔ A,C,B
Bruno Richard Hauptmann was convicted and sentenced to death to the kidnapping and murder
of Charles and Anne Lindbergh's infant son - ANS✔✔ True
In 1975, police found Gerald Wallace's body on his living room couch. He had been savagely
beaten, his hands bound with an electric cord. Detectives searched his ransacked house,
cataloging every piece of evidence they could find. None of it led to the murderer. They had no
witnesses. Sixteen years after the fact, a lone fingerprint, lifted from a cigarette pack found in
Wallace's house and kept for sixteen years in the police files, was entered into the Pennyslvania
State Police AFIS database. Within minutes, it hit a match. - ANS✔✔ True
Ninety minutes after the make/model/year information was relayed to the investigator, he
called back to say he had located a suspect vehicle. - ANS✔✔ True
Because of his vast experience and skill, Dr. Snow was able to eventually identify all of the Mr.
Gacy's victims. - ANS✔✔ False
The study of insects and their relation to a criminal investigation, known as forensic entomology,
is commonly used to estimate the time of death when the circumstances surrounding the crime
are unknown - ANS✔✔ True
The process of individualization determines a substance's physical or chemical identity with as
near absolute certainty as existing analytical techniques will permit. - ANS✔✔ False
The following are three possible combinations of DNA characteristics that might be found in an
individual's genetic profile. Using he product rule, rank each of these combinations from most
common to least common. The number after each characteristic indicates its percentage
distribution in the population. (a) FGA 24,24 (3.6%), THO1 6,8 (8.1%), and D16S539 11,12 (8.9%)
(b) vWA 14,19 (6.2%), D21S11 30,30 (3.9%) and D13S317 12,12 (8.5%) (c) DSF1PO 9,10 (11.2%),
D18S51 14,17 (2.8%) and D8S1179 17,18 (6.7%) - ANS✔✔ A,C,B
Bruno Richard Hauptmann was convicted and sentenced to death to the kidnapping and murder
of Charles and Anne Lindbergh's infant son - ANS✔✔ True
In 1975, police found Gerald Wallace's body on his living room couch. He had been savagely
beaten, his hands bound with an electric cord. Detectives searched his ransacked house,
cataloging every piece of evidence they could find. None of it led to the murderer. They had no
witnesses. Sixteen years after the fact, a lone fingerprint, lifted from a cigarette pack found in
Wallace's house and kept for sixteen years in the police files, was entered into the Pennyslvania
State Police AFIS database. Within minutes, it hit a match. - ANS✔✔ True
Ninety minutes after the make/model/year information was relayed to the investigator, he
called back to say he had located a suspect vehicle. - ANS✔✔ True
Because of his vast experience and skill, Dr. Snow was able to eventually identify all of the Mr.
Gacy's victims. - ANS✔✔ False
