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The Forensic Teacher Magazine Issue 37 Page left intentionally blank. This magazine is best viewed with the pages in pairs, side by side (View menu, page display, two- up), zooming in to see details. Odd numbered pages should be on the right. you reallyThe presents wanted! The Forensic science Kit EXAMINE THE EVIDENCE & SOLVE THE CASE + Includes real forensic tests + Dust evidence for prints to match against suspect prints Forensic + Study the police case file Teacher Magazine to solve the murder of + Test fabric samples for the Missy Hammond* presence of blood. KIT 2 SIZES smALL cLAssroom Up to 4 peopLe Up to 40 stUDents $55$ 325 BOTH SIZES COME WITH FREE, CLASSROOM-TESTED LESSON PLANS RECOMMENDED FOR 9th grADe & Up Spring 2021 * internet access is required to view the case file shop.crimescene.com // [email protected] $5.95 US/$6.95 Can you reallyThe presents wanted! 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ForensicTeacher Magazine Articles 12 Subscription Box Mysteries 36 A Quick Skeletal Remains By Mike Latsch For the cost of a single person at an escape room you Lab Set-Up for Forensic can have nearly the same experience delivered to your Anthropology door every month. A murder has been committed, some By Shelley Montgomery, Ed.D. evidence is provided, and some only comes to light after If you’re short on time or space, but want your students you solve challenging puzzles. How many suspects are to get a great forensic anthropology experience, this lab lying? How many have alibis? We reviewed three of the is exactly what you’re looking for. most popular options if this is how you like to blow off steam, or if you’re looking for a new way to challenge your students. 43 Amazing Books Right Up 16 Gifts to Ask for This Year or Your Alley By Our dedicated, tireless staff. Next We know what you like to read in your spare time, so By Our dedicated, tireless staff. we hit the bricks, paddled up the Amazon, and tracked Our staff spent a lot of time searching for the kind of down some titles we think you’re going to have trouble gifts our readers would really appreciate, presents they putting down. probably didn’t get. Take a look at what we found so the next time someone asks you what you want you’ll know exactly what to say. 50 Forensic Science Case Study Project 34 The Murder Mystery: An By Kelley Shepherd Case studies are wonderful because they ask the exercise in effective group student to take a deep dive into a criminal case and discussion and problem solving become intimate with the details. This activity will guide By Peter Pappas your students through the necessary steps to produce a Want to get your kids talking and cooperating as never great one. before? This activity makes sure there are no hitchhikers because everyone has a part to play. 58 Podcasts Just For You By Our dedicated, tireless staff. Features 2 Editorial Who doesn’t have time to listen to an engaging authority 3 Forensic News talk about true crime or forensics for a few minutes? Maybe on the way to work or while you’re looking over 4 Mini-mystery homework or during the special me time you’re going 5 Hot Sites to find yourself carving out once you get a taste of how addicting and soothing and wonderful each of these little 6 Book Reviews gems are. 10 Photo Mystery 15 Answer page 66 Morgue Guy On the cover: On February 14, 1929, Al Capone's men 66 What’s Going On? redefined how Americans thought about Valentine's Day. 67 Just For Fun Read the full story at https://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago- Magazine/May-2010/Get-Capone-St-Valentines-Day- 68 Stoopid Crooks Massacre-Jonathan-Eig/. 11 www.theforensicteacher.com www.theforensicteacher.comwww.theforensicteacher.com The Forensic Teacher • SpringSpring 20212021 Editorial The ForensicTeacher Magazine Editor-in-Chief An Accidental Issue Mark R. Feil, Ed.D. Assistant Editor Tammy Feil, Ed.D. In early December we stumbled upon a couple dozen novelty items on Amazon we thought would be great gifts for forensic educators. This issue was originally Book Editor supposed to be a holiday flyer to give readers a heads-up about what they might Enrico Pelazzo want to ask for for Christmas. And then we found some really neat books we thought you might like. And that was supposed to be it. Until we stumbled across a Science Editor T. Ann Kosloski whole mess of podcasts you’re going to love. Then some outstanding books landed on our porch and we decided to review them for you. By now it’s New Year’s. Copy Editor Okay, we thought, this will be a guide to everything you should’ve asked for and Tammy Feil can maybe still get after you return those presents you really didn’t want. And then 2021 started off worse than 2020. Contributing Editor Jeanette Hencken January gifted us with the worsening of a serious chronic illness for a key staff member, a pair of family emergencies, and the unrelated deaths of two close Layout/Graphic Design friends. The good news? Some thoughtful readers sent lessons and activities, which Mark Feil meant we now had enough material for a full issue. If you didn’t get what you wanted for Valentine’s Day, you should have no trouble finding what you want next Circulation Don Penglioni year in our pages. Or for Christmas, or your birthday. Or any other day you want to reward yourself for something outstanding you did. Or just because it’s a Tuesday. Editorial Assistant Because it came together so quickly this is the first issue we’ve ever Sandy Weiss published without an interview. Whenever we’ve asked our readers to rank our regular features the interview always landed in the middle, so we didn’t think you’d mind if we skipped it this time. However, we are in the process of transcribing a delightful conversation I had with Cece Moore, a genetic genealogist who hosted Editorial Advisory Board The Genetic Detective on ABC in 2020, which will be in our next issue. By the time you read this it will be nearly a year since our educational world turned upside down. You’ve faced a lot of challenges and there’s been a lot of Lt. John R. Evans growing pains. And you persevered. Please tell us how you did it, what you learned, Section Chief of the Delaware State Police Homicide Unit and what advice you have for anyone still struggling. Drop us a line at admin@ Head, DSP Crime Lab and Forensic theforensicteacher.com so we can give you credit, and you can ease someone else’s Services Unit burden. Jeanette Hencken Forensic Science Teacher Webster Grove High School, Webster Groves, MO Cheri Stephens Dr. Mark Feil Forensic Science Teacher Washington High School, Washington, MO Adjuct faculty at St. Louis U. Hugh E. Berryman, PhD, D-ABFA Forensic Anthropologist Volume 14, Number 37, Spring 2021 Director, Forensic Institute for Research The Forensic Teacher Magazine (ISSN 2332-3973) is published two or three times a year and is owned by Wide Open Minds Educational Services, LLC. Our mailing address is P.O. and Education Box 5263, Wilmington, DE 19808. Letters to the editors are welcome and should be sent to Middle Tennessee State University [email protected]. Submissions are welcome and guidelines are available, as is a rate sheet for advertisers at our website www.theforensicteacher.com. If you sign up for a Ted Yeshion, Ph.D. subscription you will receive an email when it is ready for download provided your spam filter doesn’t screen it out, and you opened the email announcing the previous issue; sign up at Professor - Criminal Justice & our website. Back issues are available singularly on our website, or all on a CD. The Forensic Criminalistics, Gannon University Teacher is copyrighted 2021 Wide Open Minds Educational Services, LLC, all rights reserved. All opinions expressed by contributors represent their own views, and not necessarily the views of the staff or editorial board. 2 The Forensic Teacher • Spring 2021 www.theforensicteacher.com www.theforensicteacher.com Forensic News ● If you’re a fan of horror movies or tree removal you know use of Scientific Measurements in Forensic Science.” They the value of the chainsaw. What most people don’t know, contend experts in these disciplines are able to skirt how their however, is the chainsaw was invented in 1780, and was fields are assessed for reliability and likelihood of producing originally powered by a hand crank. It wasn’t invented to cut false results. An answer of inconclusive either validates wood, but to assist in childbirth when the baby wouldn’t fit their expertise or doesn’t count against their testimony.