Welcome to blog one of the best week of the year, Forensics Week. During day 1 we had no other than the fabulous Mr. Garside to help us begin to examine forensic evidence. Forensic evidence is an item that can be tested and examined by someone who can render an opinion about it. This career path includes the study of death examination, forensic pathology, DNA such as blood and spit, ballistics, digital forensics, and homicide. To be a forensic scientist you have to think as a detective, suspect, prosecutor, and attorney, as well as thinking with why+how=who. The common myths in the career field are there are always fingerprints, and that suicide notes are common. After the note-taking portion, we did more of a deep dive into ballistics, such as soft and hard contact. Soft contact is going to make more tattooing wounds, tattooing is the gun powder from the shot on the skin, and also the barrel from where the gun is shot heats up and leaves a mark, with hard contact. With hard contact, the interior of the wound will also be more burned because of how hot a gunshot gets. We studied this with pictures of various real gunshot wounds that we weren’t allowed to take pictures of, and surprisingly they weren’t that disturbing to look at, but tv shows definitely don’t do gunshot
wounds justice.
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