THE PROFESSOR'S

ASSASSIN
OSCAR FERNANDEZ
YOVANI SERRATO

CRIME SCENE OVERVIEW

Dr. Snerd was found murdered in his classroom right before he could turn in
his final term grades for forensic science. His computerized gradebook
(Infinite Campus) was erased from the hard drive. The hard copy of his
grades did not have the results of a semester long crime scene project
which counted 60% of the semester grade. It was concluded that the
professor died from a bullet to the head. There was a flask that seemed to
be stained of blood broken in the forensics lab. The conclusion was that the
flask was the murder weapon when the blood matched Dr.snerds. There
were neither fingerprints on the flask nor any fingerprints other than Dr.
Snerds on his computer keyboard and mouse.

SCANNING THE CRIME SCENE

Evidence collected from the crime scene:

Blonde hair left behind at the crime scene- collected with
tweezers, put in a separate paper bindle, then put In a
large envelope, sealed and labeled the outer part. Then
sent to the lab to compare victims hair and suspects.
A piece of broken flask with what was believed to be the
victims blood- collected a sample with wet cotton swap,
packaged and sealed then sent to lab for blood work and
confirmed it was the victims blood.
hair that was collected from the scene.
Aside from the victims fingerprints no other ones were
found
Victims hair- collected with tweezers was used for testing
and put in a paper bindle which was then folded and
sealed in a larger envelope.

HAIR ANALYSIS
VICTIMS HAIR: BLONDE HAIR, HAD NO ROOT,
EVEN COLOR DISTRIBUTION,

BLONDE HAIR FOUND AT THE CRIME SCENE: NO ROOT,

EVEN COLOR DISTRIBUTION, HAD A FRAGMENTED MEDULLA

HAIR ANALYSIS CONTINUED

SUSPECT #1 HAIR: WAS BLONDE, NO ROOT,
NO VISIBLE MEDULLA, SHAFT DIAMETER
WAS THIN, EVEN COLOR DISTRIBUTION.

SUSPECT #2 HAIR: DARK BROWN PIGMENT,

CONTINUOUS MEDULLA, NO ROOT, EVEN
COLOR DISTRIBUTION, THICK SHAFT DIAMETER.

HAIR ANALYSIS EVALUATION

THERE ARE A VARIETY OF THINGS TO TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION WHEN TRYING TO
DISTINGUISH ONE HAIR FROM ANOTHER. BY SIMPLY LOOKING UNDER THE MICROSCOPE, YOU
CAN TELL THE COLOR LOOK CLOSER HOWEVER YOU CAN SEE THE FACTORS THAT MAKE UP
THE HAIR, SUCH AS THE MEDULLA, SHAFT, AND SCALES. THE COLLECTED HAIR FROM THE
VICTIMS, LOOKS AS IF IT WAS DYED WHILE THE HAIR COLLECTED FROM THE CRIME SCENE
WAS A BLONDE HAIR. THIS NARROWED THINGS DOWN TO TWO STUDENTS. THE FIRST
SUSPECTS HAIR UNDER EXAMINATION SEEMED TO MATCH THE HAIR TO THE ONE FROM THE
CRIME SCENE AND APPEARED TO BE OF CAUCASIAN ORIGIN, BOTH SEEM TO HAVE NO
MEDULLA AND APPEAR TO LOOK THE SAME IN COLOR. WHILE AS SUSPECT 2 DID NOT MATCH
THE CRIME SCENE HAIR. THE HAIR FROM SUSPECT 2 WAS A DARK BROWN COLOR AND HAD
A CONTINUOUS MEDULLA, THE ROOT DID NOT SEEM TO BE PRESENT AND APPEARED TO BE
OF MONOGOLOID ORIGIN.

ANALYSIS

THE SHAFT DIAMETER FOR SUSPECT ONE ALSO SEEMS TO FIT THE CRIME
SCENE HAIR AND HAD THE EVEN PIGMENT DISTRIBUTION. SUSPECT TWO
HAD A SHAFT DIAMETER THICKER THEN SUSPECT ONE. THE HAIR HAD A
THICK SHAFT AND HAD A EVENLY PIGMENT DISTRIBUTION WITH NO ROOT.
BY RUNNING A HAIR COMPARISON TEST WE CAN TELL A LOT FROM A SINGLE
STRAND. NONE OF THE HAIRS SEEMED TO BE FORCEFULLY REMOVED BUT
DID SEEM TO BE CLIPPED BECAUSE THERE WERE NO ROOTS PRESENT. WE
THEREFORE COME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT SUSPECT ONE, IS THE ONE
THAT MURDERED DR. SNERD WHEN LOOKING AT HAIR ANALYSIS REPORTS.

SEEING THE CRIME

A-white board
B-desk
C-chair
D-Dr. snerd
E- Computer
F- Glass and blood
G- blood drops
H-box with glass fragments
Location of crime: 1064
Culpepper Dr SW, Conyers,
GA 30094
Time: 5:45 P.M
Date: November 3rd, 2015
Investigators: Oscar
Fernandez, Yovani Serrato
Arrival on scene: 6:15 P.M
Case #: 2015-02
Victim: Dr. Snerd
Cause of death: Homicide

SEARCHING A CRIME SCENE

THE PROPER WAY IN SEARCHING A

CRIME
SCENE YOU HAVE TO SEARCH IT IN
GRIDS
LIKE PRESENTED ON THE IMAGE

MEANS, MOTIVE, OPPORTUNITY: WHO KILLED

THE PROFESSOR
MEANS- SUSPECT ONE DID HAVE THE MEANS TO KILL DR. SNERD. BOTH COULD HAVE COMMITTED
THE CRIME BUT ONLY ONE HAIR MATCHED THE ONE AT THE SCENE.
MOTIVE- SUSPECT ONE ALSO HAD THE MOTIVE TO KILL DR.SNERD. BY ACCOUNT OF OTHER
STUDENTS, SUSPECT ONE WAS ANGERY TOWARDS THE VICTIM BECAUSE HE WOULD NOT CHECK
THE GRADE FOR THE PROJECT AND WAS TRYING TO GET INTO A VERY COMPETITIVE FORENSICS
ANTHROPOLOGY PROGRAM AT THE UNIVERSITY. THIS CRIME SEEMED CLEAN AND WITH A PERSON
WITH SOME TYPE OF FORENSIC KNOWLEDGE. THERE WERE NO FINGERPRINTS ON THE BODY NOR
ANYWHERE ELSE AT THE CRIME SCENE. SUSPECT TWO WAS RULED OUT AT THIS TIME.
OPPORTUNITY- SUSPECT ONE DID HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO COMMIT THE CRIME, THEY HAD TO
KNOW THAT THE PROFESSOR WAS STAYING AFTER AND TOOK ADVANTAGE TO COMMIT THE CRIME.
THEY HAD THE CORRECT AMOUNT OF TIME TO KILL AND GET BACK AND MAKE UP A ALIBI.

RECONSTRUCTION OF CRIME
WE BELIEVE THE CRIME HAPPENED AS BELOW:
DR.SNERD STAYED AFTER SCHOOL TO PUT IN GRADES FOR THE PROJECT,
SUSPECT ONE SNUCK UP FROM BEHIND WITH A FLASK THAT WAS GRABBED
FROM THE LAB AND TOOK A BLOW TO THE BACK OF THE VICTIMS HEAD
THIS CAUSING DEATH ALMOST INSTANTLY. THE SUSPECT MADE SURE TO
WEAR GLOVES SO THERE WERE NO FINGERPRINTS WHEN THEY WIPED THE
COMPUTER OF GRADES AND ANY LEFT BEHIND ON THE FLASK. THEY THEN
DISPOSED OF ANY INCRIMINATING EVIDENCE THAT WOULD CONNECT THEM
TO THE CRIME.

BURDEN OF PROOF
HAIR ANALYSIS MIGHT NOT SOLVE THE CASE BUT MAKES ALL THE
DIFFERENCE WHEN LOOKING AT SUSPECTS. WHEN THE HAIR COMPARISON
ANALYSIS WAS RAN BLOOD WORK ON THE FLASK AND MATCHED IT WITH
THE VICTIM. BY PROOF OF THE HAIR FOUND AT THE CRIME SCENE
SUSPECT ONE IS FOUND GUILTY OF THE MURDER. ALL HAIR
CHARACTERISTICS FROM THE HAIR AT THE CRIME SCENE AND THE HAIR
WE TOOK OFF THE SUSPECT MATCHED. THEY HAD THE MEANS, MOTIVE,
AND OPPORTUNITY. EVEN TESTAMENTS WERE GIVEN TO HOW SUSPECT
ONE WAS ACTING TOWARDS THE VICTIM, THIS CRIME SEEMED ALMOST
PLANNED.