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Course modules:

Lesson one

• Introduction to forensic science
• The history of forensic science-from the third century BC
• Discoveries in the field of forensic science

Lesson two

• Forensics
• What is DNA?
• Mitochondrial DNA
• DNA and the law
• Amplified DNA
• Operation Phoenix
• The royal family of Russia
• Case studies
  • Robert Melias
  • Colin Pitchfork
  • The murder of Helen McCourt
  • The murder of Leanne Tiernan
  • Jules Mikus 2001 - New Zealand
  • The murder of Hyo Jung Jin

Lesson three

• The history of fingerprints
• Forensic footwear
• Ear prints
• Palm prints

Lesson four

• Forensic odontology
• Hair
• Trace evidence-fibres
• Case studies
  • The Salem witch trials
  • Ted Bundy
  • The Chi Omega murders
  • Napoleon Bonaparte - suspicious death?
  • John Vollman
  • The murder of Ruby Annie Keen

Lesson five

• Crime scene – murder
• Chemical pollution at the scene of a crime
• The autopsy
• Positional asphyxia/postural asphyxia
• Saponification/adipocere
• Decomposition
• Case studies
  • Patrick Higgins

Lesson six

• Poisons
• Poisoners
• The Marsh test
• Doctors who kill
• Case studies
  • The case of Charles LeFarge
  • Dr. Pierre Marie Bougrat
  • Dr Harold Shipman
  • Michael Swango

Lesson seven

• Psychological profiling including a brief history of profiling
• Early Profilers- Kirk 1900
• 1950s Ernst Kretschmer
• Dr James Brussel
• Serial killers
• FBI six stages of profiling
• Investigated psychology using five factors
• Behavioural evidence analysis
• Case studies
  • New York pipe bomber
  • Jack the Ripper

Lesson eight

• A profile of the organized perpetrator/offender
• The disorganized asocial offender
• Types of rapists
• Profiling
• Victimology
• Case studies
  • The Suffolk Strangler a.k.a. The Ipswich Ripper-disorganised serial killer
  • David Berkowitz
  • Robert Hanssen
  • Jerome Brudos - lust killer
  • Andrei Chikatilo

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Completion of this course does not result in a degree or qualify participants to practice professionally.