As seen on tv: Forensic Science, 1/9 5th Period

[cheerfulgoth.livejournal.com]

When the students came into the danger shop they entered into a lab that seemed straight from the heart of a police department or right off the set of a TV show. There were computers, microscopes, containers and tubes and just about every forensic doodad that you could imagine. Abby stood at the door and handed labcoats to everyone and pointed them to a row of stools around the edges of the room.

"Hey guys, I'm Professor Abby and I'll be teaching you the basics of forensics science this semester. Since I would be bored out of my brain teaching you things on paper, we're going to take a more hands on approach. I'm assuming that at least most of you have seen a TV show were they solved the case by using forensic science. They matched the fingerprints on the gun. They traced the carpet fibers. They figured out whodunit by using forensics."

"In this class you're going to be learning forensics by doing the same thing as the scientists on those shows. You're going to solve a crime." Abby pulled her lab coat tighter and motioned to a door on one side of the lab. "Follow me."

As the students stepped from the lab they walked into a dark deserted parking lot. A single flickering street lamp illuminated one corner of the lot where a blonde girl lay half against a wall amidst broken bottles, trash and puddles of water.

"This is Isabel. She's dead." Abby said, stopping about halfway across the lot. From this distance they could see that Isabel was unmarked, but it was hard to tell in the light if she was breathing or not. All in all, a pretty convincing display. "You're going to try and figure out how she died and who killed her using what you know and my nifty handout. You can work alone or in pairs or teams. Whatever you want. This week we're going to be focusing on prints that aren't fingerprints."

Passing out the handouts, Abby continued talking. "You're in high school. I'm not expecting you to know everything yet. So don't worry about knowing how to do everything on the handout. When in doubt...ask a question. I'll be around and there's always Isabel. You'd be surprised at how talkative a dead person can be."

[ooc: ocd coming soon! OCD up! Play!]

Comments

Sign In

[cheerfulgoth.livejournal.com]

Grab a labcoat!

Re: Sign In

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

William Kessler. yee! Labcoats!

Lecture

[cheerfulgoth.livejournal.com]

Questions for Abby should go here.

Handout
Time of death: (Usually discovered by taking rectal or liver temperature)
Cause of death: (Confirmed in autopsy, but preliminary observation can be useful)
Other injuries: (Preliminary examination)
Other marks/evidence on body:
Other evidence from scene:

[Handout = things you find out in crime scene thread]

Re: Lecture

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"By other prints, you mean, like, shoe prints, tire tracks, that kind of thing?"

Re: Lecture

[slr-mercury.livejournal.com]

Ami took the hand out and read it diligently.

Re: Lecture

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker's looking a little pale, but she's paying attention, and asks, "So. Photos first, right? And do we use that Luminol?"

Re: Lecture

[twohalvesofaphd.livejournal.com]

Zack looked slightly worried. He was a bone guy, after all.

Re: Lecture

[dorky-broots.livejournal.com]

Broots gulped and took a few big, big breathes of air.

Re: Lecture

[imissmydolphin.livejournal.com]

Lucas looked over the handout and folded his arms across his chest. Solve a crime. Right. Well, at least it wasn't a boring class. Boredom and Lucas never go well together.

Re: Crime Scene

[the_merriest]

Rikku paled a bit and pulled the lab coat around her, looking intently at the handout. She hadn't caught most of what the teacher was talking about, but it seemed important, so she'd try to keep up.

Re: Lecture

[the_merriest]

After a few minutes of poring over the scene, Rikku wandered back over to the teacher, shaking slightly.

"The dead girl ... she's still here. Do you need someone to do the Sending?"

Re: Lecture

[smartestone]

Hermione takes a handout and opens her notebook. Something tells her she's going to be taking a lot of notes. That makes her happy.

Re: Lecture

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

"Other prints? Footprints? Handprints? Weapon marks on the body?"

Re: Lecture

[janet_fraiser]

Janet scanned the handout. "Sounds fun," she said. She'd dabbled in forensic science before.

Crime Scene

[cheerfulgoth.livejournal.com]

Besides the dead person, there's dents in a nearby trashcan like someone kicked it in and chips off the brick wall as if a fist wearing a ring hit it. Look around the scene, check out the dead person.

[Isabel isn't really dead so normal playing rules apply, don't do anything to the character without clearing it with the mun first.]

Re: Crime Scene

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"Anyone wanna team up?" billy asked, as he first went to examine the brick wall.

Re: Crime Scene

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

The body was hanging out and having fun being dead, but Isabel was also prepared to answer questions that would have been answered during an autopsy.

Lab

[cheerfulgoth.livejournal.com]

When the students return the lab with the handout from Isabel they'll find rows and rows of left shoes, size 11. Figure out a way to make a print and see if they match.

[Mod the supplies of the lab like crazy!]

Re: Lab

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker picked up one man's loafer, and looked around for an inkpad. It had to be like fingerprints, right?

Re: Lab

[slr-mercury.livejournal.com]

AMi looked at a row of shoes. the loafer looked like it matched the print the best. she took the she and used some goo and plaster to make a negative and then a positive of the shoe. She then mad ea print of the positive, using some ink and a roller.

Re: Lab

[swerval_zero]

Zero studied the footprint she'd gotten from Isabel. It looked like a bootprint to her--and she knew bootprints. So she headed for the boots to start figuring out how to do this print thing.

Re: Lab

[twohalvesofaphd.livejournal.com]

Zack carefully made positive and negative casts of the shoes, and then prints of the casts, before checking to see which was the closest match to the print.

Re: Lab

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana carefully went through all the steps to create the casts and match the prints from the crime scene to one of the shoes here.

CHUNG CHUNG

[cheerfulgoth.livejournal.com]

The lineup of criminals includes a businessman wearing size 11 loafers, a baker wearing size 11 slippers, a bling wearing gangbanger wearing size 11 tennis shoes and a construction worker wearing size 11 boots. Point out the bad guy!

[Each person/pair/group would have gotten different prints so you're free to pick out your own bad guy.]

Re: CHUNG CHUNG

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker waved her matching shoeprints. "Business guy, step up and be arrested, thank you very much."

OOC

[cheerfulgoth.livejournal.com]

Major thanks to Isabel for being our dead person this week!

Re: OOC

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Do you need volunteers for upcoming classes?