Around the World

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1910 Lyon, France
1915 Germany
1923 Austria
U.S.A. (L.A.P.D.)
Set up by Edmond Locard
Around the World
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1932 U.S.A. (F.B.I.)
1935 U.K. (Scotland Yard)
1925 Holland
Finland
Sweden
Now all part of the Health Sciences Authority
In Singapore
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1960s
Pathology lab Chao Tze Cheng
1929 Chemical analysis service
Straits Settlements Police
Firearms Unit
Photography Unit
Toxicology
Latent Prints
Polygraph Voiceprint
Psychiatric profiling
Computer
& Electronic
Forensics
Forensic Entomology
Forensic Engineering Forensic Geology
Forensic Anthropology
Facial Reconstruction
Forensic Odontology
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Documents Unit
DNA Lab
Physical Science Unit
Biology Unit
Forensic Science Laboratories
Physical Science Unit
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Biology Unit
Chemical and physical analysis
Chemical tests, spectroscopy, microscopy,
drugs, material fragments, explosives
Biological samples
Hair, plants
DNA Lab
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Firearms Unit
Essential
Guns, bullets, cartridge cases, firearm damage
DNA analysis services
Documents Unit
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Photography Unit
Determine faked or forged documents
Analysis of handwriting, prints, paper, ink
Recording & presenting of evidence
Determine real & fake photographs
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Photography Unit
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Discontinuous
black line
Pixels are
mis-matched
Different angle
of shadows
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Not genuine?
Photography Unit
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Surgeons photograph
Loch Ness Monster?
Genuine photo
Model monster
Loch Ness Monster?
Toxicology
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Fingerprinting
Polygraph
Drugs and poisons in body fluids and organs
Visible and latent prints
Can we scientifically detect a lie?
Voiceprint analysis
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Osama bin Laden
Audio recordings
of his voice?
Proving that a
voice belongs to a
particular person
Voiceprint analysis
Howard
Hughes
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Clifford Irving claimed to
possess Howard Hughes
authorised biography
Denied by Hughes
Teleconference
Recordings compared
Irving convicted of fraud
Psychiatric Profiling
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Computer Forensics
What can we tell about the criminal
from the way they commit the crime?
Retrieving deleted data
Following of electronic trail
Forensic Engineering
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Minneapolis I-35 bridge collapse
Design fault of bridge
Corrosive effect of pigeon droppings?
Minneapolis
I-35 bridge
Why?
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Forensic Geology
Forensic Entomology
Using insects to provide information
Soil analysis
Mineral content
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Forensic Anthropology
Analysis of skeletal remains
Skeletal remains
When people die in remote places
Only found after the body has decomposed
Joseph Schexnider
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No other evidence
Abbeville, 2011
Human skeleton found
in an old chimney
Identified as Schexnider
Disappeared in 1984
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Facial Reconstruction
Take skull and rebuild flesh
See how person looked
like when they were alive
Karen Price
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Facial Reconstruction
Reconstructed
face shown on TV
Victim recognized
immediately
Skeleton found
Alexander Fallon
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Facial Reconstruction
Difficult to tell age
15 years before
he was identified
Killed in 1987
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Facial Reconstruction
Used modelling clay
Now done electronically
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Forensic Odontology
Identification of victim remains
Identification of criminals
Using teeth to provide information
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2
Ted Bundy
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Forensic Odontology
Bite mark on victim
Comparison to his
teeth impressions
Convicted & executed
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J. G. Haigh
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J. G. Haigh
Acid Bath Haigh
Killed 9 people
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J. G. Haigh
Acid Bath Haigh
Killed 9 people
Olive Durand-Deacon
Led to his capture








Olive Durand-
Deacon
Lured Mrs. Durand-Deacon
there with talk of investments
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No conviction for a
crime without a body?
Had a countryside shed
J. G. Haigh
Misunderstood the concept
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J. G. Haigh
Must be the body of evidence to
prove the occurrence of a crime
Haigh: No murder charge
without a real body
Destroyed victims bodies
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J. G. Haigh
Dissolved them in sulfuric acid
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Evidence of murder
Gall-stones
False teeth Individualised
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