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CRIME TOOLS and MYSTERY VOCABULARY

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A- VOCABULARY         

Look for clues to find the word each definition refers to:

Someone who commits crimes.  a murderer/ a criminal / an offender The place where the crime was committed.  the crime scene Someone who is suspected of a crime. a suspect A crime or mystery that the police are investigating.  a case / an investigation Fiber , hair or tissue can be crucial pieces of information that help solve a crime . evidence/ clues Something harmful which helps a murderer to commit a murder.  the murder weapon A science which helps solve legal cases .  forensics / forensic science What witnesses do .  to witness / to give a testimony / to make a statement / to testify 

Label them ! rope Blood/ blood spatter

finger print

a spanner

handgun

a rifle

a dagger /knife

an axe

a body / corpse a handprint

B- VOCABULARY IN CONTEXT

Put yourself in the shoes of a private eye !

Make use of your deductive and logic skills to fill in the blanks with the missing words. Investigating a Crime Scene Investigating a crime scene is one of the most important parts of any criminal investigation / case . If done right, it can actually be the key to solving a crime. Crime Scene Investigators, or CSIs, use special methods and equipment for investigating a crime scene. Since evidence gathered at a crime scene is what puts a criminal in jail, crime scenes are very important. There are many steps that have to be taken when conducting a criminal investigation and investigating a crime scene. Firstly, detectives have to try and figure out why and how a crime was committed. They examine a crime scene looking for information or clues such as fingerprints, weapons, and DNA. They investigate the victims’

history to determine why someone would want to harm them. After they have formed a hypothesis about the victim , they try to find proof that somebody committed a crime so that they can arrest the suspects. They look at both the motive and the actual evidence of the crime and try to see if their hypothesis makes sense. Forensic science is used to help solve crimes and there are many types of forensic methods. Forensic DNA analysis is used to determine DNA sequences from biological samples.

Imagine you are one of the Crime Scene Investigators in the photo . You have just arrived at the crime scene and you find out about the first hypotheses formulated by the FBI police officer on the picture . ( Make 6 hypotheses) 

Well, I can see a broken bike near the tree, so it may have been an accident. One of the victims must be young because there is a schoolbag on the ground. There are 2 victims. One might have committed the crime. We can see a rifle on the ground which may have been the murder weapon. Since the accident occurred during the day, someone must have seen something. We can’t see blood spatters on the crime secene. The victim can’t have been shot ! (by Antoni Lea )