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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. WNS_FSTfinal_Sept2010 8/5/10 1:14 PM Page 1 EnvironmentalWildlife and Forensics Too The WSherlock Bones Lab Activity A Classroom Classic in Forensics Developed with the aid of a practicing forensic anthropologist, this popular lab uses realistic replica bones and authentic measuring tools to teach ForensicTeacher Magazine techniques of identifying and assessing skeletal indicators and evidence. 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All Ward’s orginal and exclusive forensics lab activities offer: •Expert Developed Labscreated in collaboration with experienced forensics professionals •Authentic Experience solving realistic crime scene scenarios •Superior Qualityspecimen materials for our own labs •Proven Resultsin classrooms just like yours Discover WSherlock Bones Lab Activity (36 W 6082) along with hundreds more innovations for forensics studies at wardsci.com. Also go online to request your FREE2010 Ward’s Science Extensions Catalog, featuring Ward’s renowned Forensics Science collection. TM Serious About Science Since 1862! wardsci.com | 800-962-2660 Natural Science 3 www.theforensicteacher.com www.theforensicteacher.com The Forensic Teacher • Fall 2010 Volume 5, Number 15, Fall 2010 The 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 8 Interview By Mark Feil, Ed.D. Tess Gerritsen is an author who writes crime/ thriller novels and has 20 million copies of her books in print. She launched Rizzoli & Isles, a hit series on TNT, and credits her writing success to a couple of teachers who did something special for her. Find out what in this exclusive interview. 14 Looking For Blood In All the Right Places By Jeanette Hencken Are your students out for blood? This article will show them how to find it, even when it’s been cleaned up. 18 Environmental CSI Features By John Dobie Find out how one man used forensic science to nail 2 Editorial a trio of poachers who thought nothing of killing innocent wildlife. 4 Book Reviews 6 Mini-Mystery 20 Using Codes To Learn Forensics 7 Hot Web Sites By Ann Kosloski 26 New Products Cracking codes requires concentration, especially for cryptograms. We show you how to get your students started on this popular type of puzzle, 32 Crossword Puzzle and then put them up against the Zodiac Killer. 34 Answer Page 35 Hair Quiz 22 Top 10 Body Farm Myths 36 Morgue Guy By Cheri Stephens We’ve all heard about the Body Farm. We’ve all wondered about 36 What’s Going On? it. Now we learn the truth about those rumors that have been circulating for years by someone with inside information. 37 Just For Fun 38 Stoopid Crooks 28 Match Me If You Can By Deneen L. Hernandez Once upon a time a paper shredder represented the pinnacle of security. That time is over. This lab will make short work of reconstrucing a shredded document. 1 www.theforensicteacher.com www.theforensicteacher.com The Forensic Teacher • Fall 2010 Editorial The ForensicTeacher Magazine Editor-in-Chief Mark R. Feil, Ed.D. Holidays Dead Ahead Assistant Editor Tammy Feil, Ed.D. By now your students have settled in, you’ve guided your class through a Book Editor number of units, and the holidays are approaching. You’ve likely got an idea of Enrico Pelazzo what you want to do with your students after New Years, and may or may not have everything ready. The reason I bring this up is because it’s easy to fall into the trap Science Editor of doing what works, of playing it safe. Don’t get me wrong--I’m not suggesting T. Ann Kosloski you abandon teaching methods you’ve used for years. I’m only suggesting that when you pack up for the holidays that you think a little recklessly about the rest Copy Editor of the year, starting in January. Tammy Feil If you’ve taught forensics before you have an order to the rest of the units you usually proceed through as you count down until the end of the year. Do what Advertising Sales works for you, but please think seriously about shaking things up a bit. Jamie Gillis I’m not advocating revamping your curriculum, especially if it works. I’m not saying you should abandon those labs your students love, or that you’re Layout/Graphic Design particularly fond of. I’m only asking you to ask yourself how you can make things Mark Feil better, and to act on the answers. A course should constantly be evolving. It should get more meaningful and Circulation thought provoking every time you teach it. The first time we teach a subject most Don Penglioni of us are just trying to stay a week ahead of our students. Give us a few years and we’ve definitely made it meatier; we’ve made it our own. But when do you stop adding to it? You have a list of units you’re going to tackle in 2011, and the activities and labs that go with them. Most of us are going to use the same supplies we always have. Why not? They work and new ones cost money our school doesn’t have. But Editorial Advisory Board engaging students doesn’t have to be about flash and bling. Our students love mysteries. They love steeping themselves in the clues. They Lt. John R. Evans think they’re pretty good at finding and analyzing evidence. And we all have one Section Chief of the Delaware State or two kids who aren’t shy about letting us know they’re sure they’re Serlock Police Homicide Unit Holmes reincarnated. Head, DSP Crime Lab and Forensic This spring do something different. It can be as little as a new, sinister Services Unit introduction to a unit. It can be a local spin on a crime scene. It could be a new Jeanette Hencken criminalistics scenario you found in a book or CD, some of which are mentioned Forensic Science Teacher in our book reviews this issue. Webster Grove High School, Webster Students talk. The ones in your course have been told what to watch for and Groves, MO what to watch out for by last year’s kids. The effort you put into adding something new will add to the mystery of your class. Richard Saferstein, Ph.D. And isn’t that what legends are made of? Chief Forensic Scientist of the New Jersey State Police Laboratory (Ret.) Consultant and textbook author Cheri Stephens Dr. Mark Feil Forensic Science Teacher Washington High School, Washington, MO Volume 5, Number 15, Fall 2010 Adjuct faculty at St. Louis U. The Forensic Teacher Magazine is published quarterly and is owned now by Wide Open Hugh E. Berryman, PhD, D-ABFA Minds Educational Services, LLC. Our mailing address is P.O. Box 5263, Wilmington, Forensic Anthropologist DE 19808. Letters to the editors are welcome and should be sent to letters@ wideopenminds.com. Submissions are welcome and guidelines are available, as is a rate Director, Forensic Institute for Research sheet for advertisers at our website www.theforensicteacher.com. At this time subscriptions and Education are not available outside North America, otherwise they are free; sign up at our website. Back Middle Tennessee State University issues are available for $6.00 USD each including shipping or on CD as per the website. The Forensic Teacher is © Copyright 2009 Forensic Education Initiatives, all rights reserved. All Ted Yeshion, Ph.D. opinions expressed by contributors represent their own views, and not necessarily the views Associate Professor of Forensic Science of the staff or editorial board. Edinboro University of Pennsylvania POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Forensic Teacher, P.O. Box 5263, Wilmington, DE 19808. 2 The Forensic Teacher • Fall 2010 www.theforensicteacher.com www.theforensicteacher.com 3 www.theforensicteacher.com www.theforensicteacher.com The Forensic Teacher • Fall 2010 Book Reviews Using Forensics: Wildlife Crime complete enough that a non-forensics Scene! by Laura M. Sanders teacher (environmental, animal science, Arndt. Published by NSTA Press, biology, etc…) with little forensics 2008. 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