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Do forensic scientist have to specialize into one field like serology, latent print, toxicology, etc. or can they be multidisciplinary in the sense that one day they work on entomology another they do blood spatter and so on?

Asked by Chicken Jr. almost 9 years ago

see question above.

Is it correct process to declare cardiac arrest or heart attack as reason for death without internally examining the heart purely based on symptoms of other organs? If examination of heart necessary, is it done at forensic lab or at autopsy?

Asked by Raja almost 9 years ago

Examination of the heart would be done at the autopsy by a pathologist, and since I'm not a pathologist I'm afraid I cannot address your first question.

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How do the forensic team transport the body without destroying any crucial evidence?

Asked by coraline medow over 8 years ago

Inside a fresh body bag that's zipped up.

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Lisa thanks you for responding. Yes there are many variables in this but what Iam asking is : If you had to take a measure of amount of blood that was on human skin , how would you?

Asked by Rodger over 8 years ago

I'm sorry but I really don't know.

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what was the craziest case you have ever worked on?

Asked by john34 over 8 years ago

I haven’t worked any really crazy ones, and sorry but any semi crazy ones would take too long to explain.

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can a person erase their fingerprints w/ household cleaning products

Asked by fierce95@yahoo.com almost 9 years ago

From an object? Sure, if you clean the surface thoroughly.

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whats a typical day in the life of a forensic scientist?

Asked by kenia almost 9 years ago

When I was at the coroner's office, a typical day would be examining victim's clothing from a homicide or suicide, typing blood samples and testing gunshot residue samples. Now at the police department, a typical day is spent in front of the computer putting in latent prints that the officers or I have lifted from items and searching for a match, or checking past searches of new people put in the system. Then I might go out to process a burglary scene.

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Do forensic scientist have to specialize into one field like serology, latent print, toxicology, etc. or can they be multidisciplinary in the sense that one day they work on entomology another they do blood spatter and so on?

Is it correct process to declare cardiac arrest or heart attack as reason for death without internally examining the heart purely based on symptoms of other organs? If examination of heart necessary, is it done at forensic lab or at autopsy?

So you wanna be a Forensic Scientist?

How do the forensic team transport the body without destroying any crucial evidence?

Lisa thanks you for responding. Yes there are many variables in this but what Iam asking is : If you had to take a measure of amount of blood that was on human skin , how would you?

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what was the craziest case you have ever worked on?

can a person erase their fingerprints w/ household cleaning products

whats a typical day in the life of a forensic scientist?

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Ask me anything!

What do YOU do?

Do forensic scientist have to specialize into one field like serology, latent print, toxicology, etc. or can they be multidisciplinary in the sense that one day they work on entomology another they do blood spatter and so on?

Is it correct process to declare cardiac arrest or heart attack as reason for death without internally examining the heart purely based on symptoms of other organs? If examination of heart necessary, is it done at forensic lab or at autopsy?

So you wanna be a Forensic Scientist?

How do the forensic team transport the body without destroying any crucial evidence?

Lisa thanks you for responding. Yes there are many variables in this but what Iam asking is : If you had to take a measure of amount of blood that was on human skin , how would you?

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what was the craziest case you have ever worked on?

can a person erase their fingerprints w/ household cleaning products

whats a typical day in the life of a forensic scientist?

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