Crime Science: Methods of Forensic Detection

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INDEX Note: Italicized page numbers indicate illustrations. Abouhalima, Mahmud, 240, 241 accelerants, 230-33 Ahern, Jennie, 140-41 Ajaj, Ahmad, 241 alcohol, tests for, 226-27 Allison, Dorothy, 77 Amburgh, Charles Van, 103 American Academy of Forensic Sciences, 2 American Board of Criminalists, 19 American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors (ASCLAD), 19 American Society of Questioned Document Examiners, 168 Anastasia, 283-88 Anderson, Anna, 285, 288 anthropologist, forensic (defined), 270 anthropology, forensic, 269-82; case study (Romanovs), 283-88; used for identification, 277-82; recovery of remains, 270-73, 274, 275; skeletal examination, 273-77, 277 Appel, Charles, 168 arsenic, 228, 229, 259. See also poisons, toxicology arson, 230-33 asphyxia, 256 Asquith Committee, 114 Atlanta child murders, 65, 75-81 automated fingerprint identification system (AFIS), 124, 125, 141 autopsy, 252-53; diagram, 255; psychological , 255, 264, 268 Ayyad, Nidal, 240 Baden, Michael M., 159, 263, 268, 285 Bailey, F. Lee, 210 Balthazard, Victor, 92 Battley, Harry, 123 barbiturates, 222-23, 263-64 Beck, Adolph, 7 Behn, Noel, 166 Belushi, John, 263 Benjamin, Mary, 187-88 benzidine test, 196 Berg, Erik, 146 Bertillon, Alphonse, 8, 12, 114-15; in Dreyfus handwriting case, 168; and fingerprinting, 115, 116-17 bertillonage, 8, 9, 114-15 Bertsch, Wolfgang, 245 Beveridge, A.D., 245 Bildoo, G., 113 Binegar, Steve, 140 birefringence, 56, 64 Bisbing, Richard E., 71 Blackburn, Jim, 50 Block, Eugene, 146 blood: bloodstain evidence, 192-205, 200, 207-8, 213-14; conventional tests of, 10, 192-201, 248; DNA typing, 201-5; pattern analysis, 38-40, 294 INDEX 295 46, 51, 53; typing, 10, 194, 195, 197, 199, 248 blunt-force injuries, 256-57 Bodziak, William, 152, 154, 214 bombs. See explosives Boone, Daniel, 184 Booth, John Wilkes, 86 Bosco, Joseph, 40, 53 Bost, Fred, 53 botanicals, 66, 69-72 Botkin, Sergei, 283, 284 Boztepe, Sukru, 205 breech face markings, 97, 97, 106 Bridger, James, 184 Brown, Nicole, See Simpson, Nicole Brown Bulletproof computer program, 95 bullets: comparison, 92-96, 95, 105; recovery of, 35, 93, 103, 107; test, 93, 103, 106-7, 142; types, 88 Bunker, Judith, 39, 40, 51 Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), 235, 239 burning deaths, 257 cadaveric spasm, 251 Capone, Al, 122-23. carbon monoxide, 230 chemistry, 219-45; arson, 230-33; case study (World Trade Center bombing ), 237-42; crime-lab section, 16; drugs, 220-24; explosives, 233-37; toxicology, 224-30 Chicago Police Department, 14 chloral hydrate, 262 chromatography: gas, 224, 228, 260; liquid, 230; thin-layer, 182 Civil Aeronautics Board, 234 Clark, Mareia, 210 class evidence: bullets, 92-93; handwriting , 169, 170; shoes and tires, 151, typewriting, 174 Cochran, Johnnie, 210 codeine, 221 Combined DNA Index System (CODIS), 203 comparison micrography, 155 comparison microscope, 56-57, 58, 93, 94, 95, 97, 155, 157 Condon, John F ("Jafsie"), 158-59, 161, 164 Connors, Edward, 217 conspiracy advocates, 262-63, 265 control samples, 35 corpus delicti, 5, 33 Cowlings, A.J., 209, 214 "cremains," 270 crime laboratory: accreditation of, 19; development of, 12; modern, 14-19 crime scene investigation, 23-53; case study (MacDonald), 43-51; collection and preservation, 32-37; coordinates, 29; crime reconstruction , 37-40; documentation, 26-32; legal considerations, 40-43; models, 41; notes, 31-32; photographs, 26-28, 45; preliminaries, 23-26, 26; search methods, 33; search section of crime lab, 16; sketch, 28-31, 34; vehicle equipment, 25 Criminal Investigation Division (CID), 44-48, 49 criminalistics (defined), 2-3 criminalists: certification, 19; defined, 2 Curphey, Theodore J., 264 cyanoacrylate fuming, 132-33, 133, 135 Dalrymple, B.E., 131-32 Darden, Christopher, 210 Darwin, Charles, 113 Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 5-6, 205 Daye, Stephen, 185 Deadman, Harold A., 77 death: cause of, 254-61; manner of, 25461 ; mode of, 254; time of, 249-51. See also pathology decomposition (of bodies), 271-73 Dees, Timothy M., 53 D'Elia, Gerry, 185 dental records, 277-80, 279 depressants, 222 Dershowitz, Alan M., 210 Dickens, Charles, 184 Dillinger,John, 116 DiMaggio, Joe, 262 DNA typing, 12, 70-71, 201-5, 207-8, 210-12, 248; computerized system, 203, 204; mitochondrial, 203, 28182 , 288, 290 document examination: analytical techniques, 176-83; forgery detection , 174-76; handwriting comparison , 167-74; inks, 18-19, 178, 180, 180, 181, 182, 183, 185, 186-87; paper, 18, 178, 179; reference collections, 18; typewriting comparison , 174; watermarks, 18, 177 2 9 6 INDEX Douglas, John, 245 Doyle, Arthur Conan, 6, 8, 10, 193 Dreyfus...