Tools and Tool Marks Are Often Found at Burglary Scenes

question 25

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) making test marks with the suspected tool onto a soft metal surface at the crime scene.
• B) taking a photograph and cast of the marks, if necessary.
• C) reporting whether a tool found at the scene fit into the tool marks.
• D) immediately dusting the tool for fingerprints.
• E) packing of tool and tool mark evidence together so that the crime lab personnel knows they are thought to be a matched set.

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