Physical anthropologists, who study the physical makeup of humans through millions of years, analyze skeletal remains in the trace evidence lab. A forensic scientist examines traces taken from a suspect vehicle in a hit-and-run fatality case. D eoxyribo n ucleic a cid, or DNA, is the substance that chromosomes are made of.
Chromosomes are long connected double strands of DNA that have a structure resembling a twisted ladder. Along the chromosome strands are genes, or the genetic code unique to every person except in special cases such as identical twins who have the same genetic code. Individuals inherit one strand of the DNA chromosome from their mother and one strand from their father.
The paired chromosomes, one from the mother and one from the father, are located in the nucleus of each individual's cells. After specific laboratory treatment, DNA double strands separate into single strands. When photographed with the aid of high power microscopes and computers, a single DNA strand appears as a long row of light and dark bands that look something like the bar codes on items for sale.
The end result is that scientists can compare two DNA samples to see if the bands line up. If there is an exact match, the two samples came from the same person. When samples from a crime investigation include blood, saliva, and other body fluids, chromosomal DNA is separated into single strands and the bar code of each strand becomes a DNA profile.
Explosive experts respond to the scene of an explosion or investigate the discovery of an undetonated unexploded bomb. They examine and identify parts of bombs. Even if an explosion occurred, the components used to build and detonate the bomb, although damaged, often can still be identified.
Chemicals, switches, wires, and detonators are all characteristic of the builder. The builder may be an individual or a terrorist group.
The FBI estimates that 85 percent of terrorist activities attempted toward U. The Latent Prints Unit has two categories of fingerprint holdings, criminal and civil. The criminal fingerprint file contains print records of about 47 million individuals who have been arrested and charged with a crime.
The civil files have about Civil prints are made of all employees of the federal government, all members of the U. The purpose of keeping the civil print database is to perform background checks searching for a criminal history. The FBI shows an average annual hit of , checks—or , prints each year submitted to the civil databases are identified persons with a criminal history record. Civil submissions also are checked against wanted persons files and a terrorist watch list.
The FBI receives approximately fifty thousand fingerprint submissions every day. It received a total of 17,, submissions in Some 48 percent of these submissions were civil and 52 percent criminal. Previously, all prints arrived on paper fingerprint cards that had to be processed by hand. The IAFIS allows personnel of the Latent Print Unit to quickly process requests from law enforcement agencies all over the country for criminal background checks of people arrested or to check prints recovered at crime scenes against those on file.
Many identifications have been made when law enforcement had no suspects. Other times suspicion can be lifted from innocent people and the real offender captured. The Questioned Documents Unit also compiles a number of databases that can be crosschecked. The Firearms-Toolmarks Unit provides extensive firearm and toolmark identifications on weapons and tools used in crimes.
They also restore serial numbers that have been altered or filed off of firearms to hinder identification. Chem-Bio was added in for the forensic examination of hazardous materials.
This unit works closely with the U. The Chemistry Unit is one of the largest with secondary sections consisting of General Chemistry, Toxicology, Paints, Metallurgy, Elemental analysis of elements such as lead, arsenic, and silicon in glass , and Instrumentation Operation and Support. The Paint Unit has samples of every color of paint used on U. Every auto manufacturer in the United States must send in paint samples every year.
Most foreign manufacturers also submit samples. From tiny smudges of paint the FBI paint sleuths can identify the make, model, and year of any automobile. DNA profile matches and checks identify murderers and sex offenders often when there had been no suspect. They also release innocent persons from suspicion. The Counterterrorism and Forensic Science Research Unit carries out research activities for all units of the FBI Lab, introducing new and more precise scientific techniques.
The constantly evolving methods of this unit help solve crimes and thwart terrorist actions. The Special Photographic Unit provides a wide range of services such as crime scene photography, surveillance, photography from the air, and aerial mapping. The unit works with traditional photographic processes as well as with digital imaging. In addition, it provides maintenance for photographic equipment throughout the FBI Lab and supports personnel with ongoing training classes.
The Bomb Data Center provides the latest training, techniques, and equipment to local law enforcement bomb squads—those who are the first to respond to threats of explosive and biological weapons. ERTs traveled halfway across the world to Piyadh, Saudi Arabia, after vehicle bombs destroyed residential buildings there on May 12, Twenty-three people, including nine Americans, died in those bombings. ERTs carry out crime scene investigations including evidence collection, the preservation and documentation of that evidence, and also provide photography and fingerprinting.
The Hazardous Materials Response Unit coordinates specialized response teams trained to handle chemical, biological, radiological radioactive , and nuclear substances.
It also oversees national and international training to respond to such materials, and supports FBI response programs located throughout the country.
The unit also deals with an increasing caseload of environmental crimes such as the illegal dumping of waste into the nation's waterways. Two units that provide operational support develop fascinating recreations of crime scenes by reconstructing not only buildings, but providing drawings of suspected individuals. The Investigative and Prosecutive Graphics Unit surveys crime scenes, then produces computerized animated scenarios of human movements and actions during a crime.
They provide maps, floor plans, diagrams, and timelines, and they are the unit responsible for composite drawings of suspects from victim interviews.
The unit can also reconstruct the appearance of individuals from skeletal remains. The Structural Design Unit supports expert testimony in trials by providing three-dimensional models of crime sites, scale models of vehicles, and models of bomb devices. This unit also provides mannequins of victims for wound locations. Examples of investigative aids from the Structural Design and Graphics units include the composite drawing of Timothy McVeigh, who bombed the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City; a model of the Murrah Building before and after the bomb blast; a map of Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, site of a mass shooting in April ; and a model of the cabin where Ted Kaczynski, the notorious "Unabomber," lived in Montana.
Until captured Kaczynski mailed sixteen bombs between and to selected individuals across the United States killing three and injuring twenty-nine. Federal Bureau of Investigation. FBI Laboratory Quantico, VA: U. Department of Justice, Inman, David, and Norah Rudin. Smyth, Frank. American Association of Poison Control Centers.
Human Genome Study Information. Firearms and toolmark identification The identification of firearms and weapon-related evidence has played a critical role in crime investigation throughout the twentieth century.
Latent prints Latent prints refer to fingerprints, palm prints, and the footprints that are not visible to the unaided eye but can be recovered from a crime scene for study.
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