PHYSICAL EVIDENCE….WHAT IS IT ANYWAY?

Two of the most popular shows on this year’s lineup on television are “Criminal Minds” and “Law and Order”. If you want to talk about cable television, “Dexter” still rules as a must see cable TV show. Say you want to get a little reality in your Forensic Science, just turn on your television to “Unsolved Mysteries” or “Investigative TV”. Still don’t have enough choices, well just read the newspaper or surf the internet and keep up with the day by day occurrences of the “Casey Anthony Case” or the “Amanda Knox Case” so you can have plenty to discuss with your family and friends about how the justice system does not work.

No matter which venue captures your attention, the common theme of all these shows is the physical evidence recovered from the crime scene. Whether it’s a bloody knife found on a suspect, a kilogram of cocaine stuffed in a suitcase on an airplane, or tiny fibers found on the victim’s body that match the wool sweat shirt worn by the alleged suspect, they all provide a great connection between a victim and a suspect that could help piece a complex criminal case together like pieces of a puzzle. So what exactly is physical evidence?

This audio will give you a accurate definition of what physical evidence is and explain how physical evidence can be anything from the smallest microscopic piece of hair or fiber adhering to the baseball cap of a suspect all the way to a tire retrieved from an “eighteen wheeler” that was involved in an alleged hit and run accident.

Through the use of brilliant powerpoint slides, seven real forensic science cases will be used to illustrate how the physical evidence collected in those cases was instrumental in determining the outcome of the cases in a court of law. You will also hear the importance of why physical evidence is labeled at the crime scene and how it is directly related to the “Chain of Custody” of the physical evidence that is so crucial to establishing where the physical evidence originated and where it has been.

So clean off all the possible physical evidence that could connect you to the button when you click on it to begin your audio so you will not be accused of learning too much of this valuable information about physical evidence and how it should be collected and preserved for analyses.