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An interactive tool used in supplement to the NIJ online training course entitled 'Collecting DNA Evidence at Property Crime Scenes'. The video provides examples of DNA evidence search methods used at crime scenes by search conductors.

An interactive tool used to supplement the NIJ online training course entitled 'Collecting DNA Evidence at Property Crime Scenes', as outlined in the third learning module, 'Evidence Collection'. This brief demonstration shows how a blood sample is swabbed from an absorbent wood surface.

An interactive tool used to supplement the NIJ online training course entitled 'Collecting DNA Evidence at Property Crime Scenes', as outlined in the third learning module, 'Evidence Collection'. This brief demonstration shows a blood sample being scraped into bindle paper.

0:01 Where are you employed? Illinois State Police. 

0:05 And what is your title? Forensic scientist. 

0:08 What are your primary duties my primary duties  include receiving evidence and screening them  

0:14 or looking for biological stains such as  blood semen or saliva I then perform DNA  

0:19 analyses on these stains and if I'm if it is  requested I testify in court to my findings. 

0:27 How long have you been employed  as a forensic scientist with ISP? 

An interactive tool used to supplement the NIJ online training course entitled 'Collecting DNA Evidence at Property Crime Scenes', as outlined in the third learning module, 'Evidence Collection'. This brief demonstration shows how the use paper wrapping to prevent contamination on wet and dried biological evidence.

An interactive tool used to supplement the NIJ online training course entitled 'Principles of Forensic DNA for Officers of the Court', as outlined in the sixth learning module, 'Understanding a Forensic DNA Lab Report'. This brief animation shows how inconclusive or uninterpretable results found in an electropherogram lab report can be excluded as the source of DNA evidence. 

An interactive tool used to supplement the NIJ online training course entitled 'Principles of Forensic DNA for Officers of the Court', as outlined in the second learning module, 'Biological Terminology'. This brief animation shows how a child inherits genes from its parents in a nuclear cell and is used as biological DNA terminology. 

An interactive tool used to supplement the NIJ online training course entitled 'Principles of Forensic DNA for Officers of the Court', as outlined in the sixth learning module, 'Understanding a Forensic DNA Lab Report'. This brief animation shows an excluded DNA sample typically found in a forensic lab report and is used as common terminology. 

An interactive tool used to supplement the NIJ online training course entitled 'Principles of Forensic DNA for Officers of the Court', as outlined in the eighth learning module, 'Mitochondrial DNA & Y-STR Analysis'. This brief animation shows how mtDNA is passed from a mother to her children and the implications of this inheritance pattern in forensic testing.