Tools and Tool Marks Are Often Found at Burglary Scenes

question 78

Multiple Choice

Tools and tool marks are often found at burglary scenes and can be useful evidence. Proper evidence collection by the field investigator would include:

• A)Reporting whether a tool found at the crime scene fit into the tool marks.
• B)Making test marks with the suspected tool onto a soft metal surface at the crime scene.
• C)Taking a photograph and cast of the marks if necessary.
• D)Packing of tool and tool mark evidence together so that the crime lab personnel know they are thought to be a matched set.

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