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The Forensic Teacher Magazine Issue 34 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. New takes on autopsies The ForensicTeacher Magazine Unique? Not so much. Spring 2019 $5.95 US/$6.95 Can New takes on autopsies 3 Spring 2015 The Forensic Teacher • Spring 2019 $5.95 US/$6.95 Can The Volume 12, Number 34, Spring 2019 The Forensic Teacher Magazine is published quarterly, and is owned by Wide Open Minds Educational Services, LLC. Our mailing address is P.O. Box 5263, Wilmington, DE 19808. Please see inside for more information. ForensicTeacher Magazine Articles 30 Aww Rats! An autopsy 6 Interview activity By Mark Feil, Ed.D. By Jessica Parker We’ve never interviewed a fingerprint examiner and This isn’t just a dissection lab in a forensic setting. when we asked around one name kept coming up: This is much more because you’re going to customize Ken Moses. He doesn’t just do it for a living, he does it each corpse to the crime. Your students will definitely because it’s in his bones. This is the guy the FBI calls remember this class. for advice, so who better to talk to our readers about fingerprints? 39 Raising Your Standards 18 Autopsy of a Dill Pickle By Donald J. Frost II By Shelley Montgomery, Ed.D. Putting fingerprints on a 10 print card seems like it should be easy, but too often it’s easy to screw it up. If your students are squeamish or your budget is tight This piece will show you how to make it look simple. this activity transforms a deli staple into a surprisingly engaging and relevant exercise. 45 Fingerprinting 101 28 Using Details to Learn By Erin Radebe and Megan Hart Forensics Using chemicals to visualize fingerprints can seem By Enrico Pelazzo and Tracy (Trimpe) Tomm intimidating, but this guide will walk you through everything you need to know to give your students a Examining fingerprints is pretty straightforward when great experience. students are looking at perfect exemplars from a textbook. This exercise shows them what it’s like to work in the real world. 58 Sticky Fingers Rice University Center for Teaching Excellence A crime has been committed and the cops have a suspect in custody. Your students must use what Features they’ve learned about fingerprints to determine if the 2 Editorial right person has been arrested. 4 Mini-mystery 5 Hot Links 38 Crossword Puzzle 71 Ten Print Card Template 55 Photo Mystery Courtesy of the FBI and adopted by just about everyone taking fingerprints, you can photocopy this template to 70 Answer page take prints from your students. 72 Morgue Guy 72 What’s Going On? 73 Just For Fun 74 Stoopid Crooks 11 www.theforensicteacher.com www.theforensicteacher.comwww.theforensicteacher.com The Forensic Teacher • Spring 2019 Editorial The ForensicTeacher Magazine Editor-in-Chief We Need You Mark R. Feil, Ed.D. Over the past 13 years we’ve published hundreds of articles, most of which Assistant Editor came from our readers who were kind enough to share what worked in their Tammy Feil, Ed.D. classrooms. Some were straightforward how-to guides, some were improvements Book Editor over what they were given to work with, but most were activities our readers Enrico Pelazzo Henssge’s Nomogram developed on their own and wanted to share. And it’s this last group that made The Forensic Teacher Magazine special. The quirky, different, and often cost effective Science Editor activities sent our way from teachers who’d struggled with bored students, tight T. Ann Kosloski budgets, and a lack of mentors or training are exactly the sort of things that get us Copy Editor up in the morning. Tammy Feil In the last couple months we’ve heard from teachers who used our magazine when they first started teaching forensics and wanted to give back.Their Contributing Editor submissions either built on something we published before or they were original Jeanette Hencken activities the teachers had come up with on their own. This magazine is by teachers Layout/Graphic Design for teachers, and we were tickled they wanted to pay it forward. Mark Feil Many forensics educators have put their exercises and lessons on Teachers Pay Teachers, a wonderful website where educators make their resources available for Circulation very reasonable prices. In fact, some of the activities in this issue came from that Don Penglioni website after their authors granted us permission. So, we know some of you are Editorial Assistant actively creating content for the forensic classroom. It’s the rest of you we’d love to Sandy Weiss hear from. One of the main reasons we’ve been publishing so long is because some of our readers approached us with ideas about sharing what works in their classroom. At the risk of sounding like a PBS pledge drive, I can’t stress enough how much Editorial Advisory Board we need your support. Don’t send something you’ve taken word for word from a published textbook or lab manual or we’ll receive a nasty letter from their legal department. However, if you don’t have something original, but you have a lab Lt. John R. Evans or exercise based on something commercial that you changed, added to, AND Section Chief of the Delaware State customized for your classroom, hit us up! Police Homicide Unit Head, DSP Crime Lab and Forensic Readers: we love you and we need you. Please help us. Email us at admin@ Services Unit theforensicteacher.com and tell us what’s on your mind. What works for you? What do you do that makes all the difference when your students start a new chapter Jeanette Hencken or topic in your curriculum? Reach out to us and we will continue to publish. Forensic Science Teacher Otherwise, just like PBS programming, without your support we might not be Webster Grove High School, Webster Groves, MO around too much longer. Cheri Stephens Mark Forensic Science Teacher Washington High School, Washington, MO Adjuct faculty at St. Louis U. Dr. Mark Feil Hugh E. Berryman, PhD, D-ABFA Forensic Anthropologist Volume 12, Number 34, Spring 2019 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 our Professor - Criminal Justice & website. Back issues are available singularly on our website, or all on a CD. The Forensic Criminalistics, Gannon University Teacher is copyrighted 2019 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 2019 www.theforensicteacher.com www.theforensicteacher.com Congrats! Try or buy ISBN 9781138487451 Try or Buy 3 www.theforensicteacher.com www.theforensicteacher.com The Forensic Teacher • SpringISBN 97811384880522019 Try or Buy Mini-Mystery The Norfolk Bank Robbery THOMAS P. STANWICK, the amateur logician, was a Brinner, whom he admired like a kid brother. Both used to familiar and welcome visitor at Royston Police headquarters. work at a local electronics plant. Shortly after noon on a fine Tuesday in spring, he returned a “3. Pickett was involved in the robbery. Despite his nod to the duty sergeant and strolled to the office of Inspector phobia about guns, which he refuses to touch, he once worked Matt Walker. as a private security guard. “The Ides of April are almost upon us, my lad,” said “4. Schartner and Langley were both involved in the Stanwick cheerily. Walker looked up from the piles of papers robbery or the driver was either Kuhlman or Schartner. on his desk with a weary smile. “5. The driver is a champion bowler. He doesn’t “Tax time! Don’t remind me,” he said. “It’s good to know any other games, but he lifts weights to stay in shape. see you though, Tom.” “Naturally, our main concern is identifying the “What’s been happening?” Stanwick began to fill his shooter,” concluded Walker, “but we’re eager to identify all pipe. three involved in the robbery and their roles.” “How about a bank “Well, Matt,” said Stanwick with a smile, “if you’re robbery?” sure of your facts, I can identify each of the three robbers “A bank robbery!” right now.” Stanwick laughed. “Isn’t that a bit old-fashioned, what with electronic transfers and all? I suppose you’ll be Who were the shooter, the driver, and the collector? investigating a stagecoach holdup next.” “You’d be surprised, Tom,” Walker replied. “Banks still handle quite a lot of actual cash, and that still (Answer on page 70) attracts the bad guys.” “Indeed!,” said Stanwick, arching his eyebrows. “What bank got held up?” “Last Friday, about two o’clock,” related Walker, “two men wearing Halloween masks entered the Norfolk Bank and Trust and demanded the money in the teller cages and in the safe.