Section 1.1

Question 1

Who was a famous serial killer and her DNA was found in numerous murder scenes from 1993-2009?

Answer 1

Phantom of Heilbronn

Question 2

Who did not just commit murder cases but all different kinds of crimes and across three different countries?

Answer 2

Phantom of Heilbronn

Question 3

What three different countries were crimes committed by the Phantom of Heilbronn?

Answer 3

Germany
France
Austria

Question 4

The officers kept finding the same person’s DNA and it was so bad in the late 90s that someone offered 300k Euro reward. What case was this associated with?

Answer 4

Phantom of Heilbronn

Question 5

All the officers knew at first about the phantom of Heilbronn was that she was a female of Eastern European descent. True or False

Answer 5

True

Question 6

There were never any witnesses when their should have been. Example, there was a bank robbery and witnesses and there were four guys and when the police left the DNA only showed four men’s DNA and there was a fifth persons DNA that was a female.

Answer 6

Story during the time of Phantom of Heilbronn.

Question 7

MO stands for what?

Answer 7

Modus Operandi

Mode of operation

Question 8

The phantom of Heilbronn did not have an overlapping MO. True or False

Answer 8

True. Sometimes it was a shooting or a stabbing

Question 9

There was a giant red flag that finally solved the case on the Phantom of Heilbronn. They took a dead body for DNA and the DNA come back as the phantom of Heilbronn. True or False

Answer 9

True

Question 10

Every single police department that had found her DNA had sourced their cotton swabs from the exact same factory. The DNA was from?

Answer 10

A lady who worked at the cotton swab factory who did not wash her hands and got her DNA all over the cotton swabs.

Question 11

The Phantom of Heilbronn had been a ghost serial killer for how many years?

Answer 11

16

Question 12

Investigators took so long to complete the investigation. Why?

Answer 12

they got so caught up that DNA was perfect and they overlooked all of the giant red flags

Question 13

Do not get so focused on one answer that you ignore any other possibilities!

Answer 13

TRUTH

Question 14

All the police across three countries were so focused on DNA and trying to find her that she never existed as a killer. Never get so focused on a crime that you ignore ______ ______ _______.

Answer 14

Giant Red Flags

Question 15

Term: Looking around trying to find evidence of a crime and who committed the crime.

Answer 15

Investigations

Question 16

Prior to 1748 people would still get taken to trial and given the death penalty without scientific evidence because there was no what?

Answer 16

Fielding Investigations

Question 17

England hired a guy to help out because there was a lot of crimes in London. Who was this?

Answer 17

Henry Fielding

Question 18

Henry Fielding decides to do something new and hires a bunch of people to go out and investigate crimes and ask people questions. What were these people called?

Answer 18

Bow Street Runners

Question 19

Did the bow street runners have success?

Answer 19

Midland success

Question 20

Who was a really successful guy that has books written about him?

Answer 20

Vidocg

Question 21

Who was a criminal that came to good graces with the people who were powerful, and started helping them to catch other criminals?

Answer 21

Vidocg

Question 22

The French police hired this guy to catch more criminals and he hired other criminals to go catch even more criminals. Who was this?

Answer 22

Vidocg

Question 23

Vidocg and his men are hugely successful because they can get into places under cover because they look the part. What was created due to their success?

Answer 23

Vidocg Society

Question 24

There are all kinds of investigators from all different investigative fields. There are only 150 members allowed at one time.

Answer 24

Vidocg Society

Question 25

What does the Vidocg society volunteer to do?

Answer 25

Solve cold cases

Question 26

Who were professional detectives with uniforms?

Answer 26

Scotland Yard

Question 27

Where is Scotland yard located?

Answer 27

England

Question 28

Who was a detective who went out one night on the river and saw a campfire on an island in the middle of the river?

Answer 28

Pinkerton

Question 29

Pinkerton went to the police and they went to the island and waited for the campfire to start up and they did a huge bust. The officers saw that Pinkerton was really good and they wanted him to start doing this. Pinkerton decided to start what?

Answer 29

Pinkerton Detective Agency

Question 30

Is Pinkerton detective agency still in business today?

Answer 30

Yes

Question 31

Before the secret service existed who protected the president and failed with Lincoln and caused the secret service to be created?

Answer 31

Pinkerton

Question 32

Pinkerton becomes detectives for hire. True or False

Answer 32

Ture

Question 33

Bertillon develops Anthropometry. True

Answer 33

True

Question 34

Anthropometry Anthro- Pometry-

Answer 34

Anthro- Human | Pometry- measure

Question 35

Before photography it was just the height, weight, scars, tattoos, eye color, hair color. With Anthropometry you could look at the record to see this information and if the person had been arrested before. True

Answer 35

True

Question 36

Because of Anthropometry is become harder for people to lie about who they were because across cities the officers could look up information about the people. True of False

Answer 36

True

Question 37

Who was responsible for the exchange principal?

Answer 37

Lockard

Question 38

Every time you walk into a room you take something away and you leave something behind. It could be a little or a lot. True or False and who is responsible for this?

Answer 38

True | Lockard

Question 39

Example, if there is a murder scene with blood everywhere you can guarantee that a. b.

Answer 39

something was left at the scene | something was taken away form the scene

Question 40

How investigations work today. We have an assumption that in every crime scene that something will be left by the suspect and there will be something that he took away from the scene. True or False

Answer 40

True