Death+Chapter

Application and Critical Thinking

1.	The Forensic team could not obtain a full search warrant to go through the house. They went in April and the agents were abducted in February. Had they been able to search the house sooner then some more evidence might have turned up, and the crime scene would have been less damaged

3. 	Physical Evidence could have been retrieved. Either by Pattern, which is blood, impressions, or residue. Trace, produced by physical contact with some surface. Another type would be Conditional, associated with specific conditions at the crime scene. These are three of the main groups that Physical evidence is put into. If any more evidence would have been put into one of these categories than the prosecution team might have gotten a harsher punishment.

5.	A. Coroner- they are in charge of handling the dead bodies, and conducting investigations into what might have happened to a certain person. B. Forensic Anthropologist- They are in charge of bones. Specialist in locating wounds and understand terms of death when no body is recovered. C. Forensic Anthropologist- They are in charge of bones. Specialist in locating wounds and understand terms of death when no body is recovered.

Case Analysis

1.	Investigators couldn’t brig anything that they gathered from the crime scene back to the FBI Lab to do their own tests on it. Everything that they gathered was taken back to a lab in Mexico and stored. This really hurt the Forensic team in terms of being able to recover DNA from things found at the crime scene

2.	Investigators used samples of hair and fingernails from the bodies to prove that they had been in the house. Samples were found in the house that matched the dead bodies. This was very hard evidence that the Forensic team was able to recover.

3.	Investigators were tipped to the location of two other bodies that were buried in the park. Once the bodies were extracted a soil sample was taken, and it matched the soil that was found on the two bodies that were located on the side of the road.