Name___________________      Date________

NOTES: Document Examination:

What is a Forensic Linguist?

1.    Experts that     look at the linguistic content (the way something is written) of a questioned document.

2.    Language that is used can help to establish the writer’s age, gender, ethnicity, and education

How are indented (indentations/impressions) writings detected ?

1.      Oblique lighting

2.Electrostatic detection apparatus (ESDA)

What is Criminal Profiling?

Originally called the Behavioral Sciences Unit

(Criminalistics)- Crime scene photos

(Criminology and Linguistics) review of the phone conversations (victimology) Shari Smith’s background

Forensic Files: Last Will

1. What was the questioned document?

2. What evidence was gleaned from the document? How?

Video: Criminal Profiling

3. What did  FBI Profiler John Douglas use to create the criminal profile of the abductor?

(Criminalistics)- Crime scene photos

(Criminology and Linguistics) review of the phone conversations and (victimology) Shari Smith’s background

4. What was John Douglas’s profile of the abductor?

 White male, Shy and polite to strangers, overweight, unattractive, meticulous person that would be following news reports and that he would not try to kidnap the other sister because he is a coward

5. What were the similarities between the 2 abductions?

1.    abducted from front yard’

2.    physical appearance of the girls

3.    gave directions to dump site

6. How was the Profile used to catch the serial killer?

The people whose phone # matched the document matched and they knew it was the man who had been house sitting -Larry Gene Bell

7. What parts of the criminal profile fit the suspect?

Mid 30’s, failed and  violent relationships with women in the past, flexibility in there jobs and an arrest record. Meticulous- house room, and vehicle.

8. What trace physical evidence was found in the Sheppard’s  house matched the victim?  Hair

9. Why was the profiler used to help with the suspect interview?

They have knowledge of criminology- the “good” Larry would not have down this, but the “bad” Larry might.

9. How was Profiler John Douglas used during the trail?

Made predictions about the suspects behavior – outburst in the courtroom.

Advise to the prosecution . executed in 1996.

10. What is the “art” of profiling?

1.     using deductive reasoning

2.     using clues from the crime scene