Module 2 Activities
Case Study 1
Knowledge Check
Activity 1 (To be submitted for assessment)
1.
The way that Glaister carried out his investigations is most likely to have been
influenced by:
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
2.
The way that Hammond carried out his investigations is most likely to have
been influenced by:
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
3.
Jean Pierre Megnin
Sir Edward Richard Henry
William Henry Herschel
Henry Faulds
The way that Mearns carried out his investigation is most likely to have been
influenced by:
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
4.
Mathieu Orfila
Sir Bernard Spilsbury
Bergeret d'Arbois
Masato Soba,
Jean Pierre Megnin
Edmund Locard
William Henry Herschel
Foster & Freeman
Examination of the skull sutures can help determine:
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
Gender
Ethnicity
Age
Cause of death
5.
To determine that Isabella Ruxton and Mary Jane Rogerson had been
murdered in 2 Dalton Place, Glaister conducted:
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
6.
An autopsy is:
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
7.
Rotting flesh
Human hair samples
Insects
Teeth
A serologist analyses:
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
9.
The post mortem examination of a body
A method of lifting fingerprints from dead bodies
A device for collecting insects from a cadaver
An instrument for estimating time of death
Entomology is the study of:
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
8.
DNA tests
Serum tests
The Marsh test
Chemical analysis
The fingerprints of dead bodies
Blood and DNA samples
Footprints
Old newspapers
Articles of evidence in this case were carefully collected, labelled, stored and
recorded to avoid:
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
Claims for damages
Breaking the chain of continuity of evidence
Upsetting Dr. Ruxton
The newspapers taking photographs
Module 2
Case Study 1
The Bodies in the Stream (The Jigsaw Case)
Activity 2 (to be submitted for assessment)
In the table below list five of the forensic specialists (e.g. Pathologist) who
played an important role in collecting the evidence which convicted the killer
in this case. In no more than 100 words describe what these five specialists
did and how this helped to convict the killer.
Specialist
Role in this case