Independent Study 1

Content:

1. Log:
I watched T.V shows on the Investigation Channel. I watched the shows: 48 Hours in ID, Deadly Women, and Nightmare Next Door.
From February 1st to February 10th I watched a total of 38 hours.
Feb. 1: 48 Hours on ID- from 2-4PM
Feb. 2: 48 Hours on ID- from 2-8PM
Feb. 3: 48 Hours on ID- from 2-4PM, Deadly Women- from 5-7PM, Nightmare Next Door- 7PM

Feb. 4: 48 Hours on ID- from 2-4PM
Feb. 5: 48 Hours on ID- from 9-11AM, Nightmare Next Door- 2PM
Feb. 6: Deadly Women- from 10AM-5PM &7PM
Feb. 7: 48 Hours on ID- from 2-4PM
Feb.8 : 48 Hours on ID- from 2-4PM
Feb. 9: 48 Hours Hard Evidence- from 2-5PM
Feb. 10: 48 Hours on ID- from 2-4PM, Deadly Women-from 5-6PM, Nightmare Next Door- 7PM

2. Posted Evidence: Website with schedule: http://investigation.discovery.com/tv-schedules/daily.html?date=20110201.032
Notes from Wednesday, February 9: The Secret:
-Theresa Parker
- Went missing on a Thursday, March 2007
-Suspect: her ex-husband
weapon used-?
-There was no crime scene
-Found blood stains in the back of her car and had it analyzed; it was Theresa's and also found her husband's DNA.
-body found 3 years later
           -skeletal remains

3. Complete the LIA:
Literal

(a) I, Daisy Barrera, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.
(b) I completed 30 hours of taking notes on the processes of finding evidence of murders at crime scenes by detectives, forensic scientists, psychologists, pathologists.

Interpretive
These different shows helped me because it showed me different jobs working together to accomplish in finding people that have committed crime. It demostrates 30 hours of work because I Took notes in what the detectives did in order to figure out who committed the crime, how psychologists pieced together the reasons why the crimes were committed, and how the forensics team found specific pieces of evidence that helped detectives determine who the criminals were. These shows gave me Knowledge on what these jobs do and how they work in putting criminals to justice in their own way.

Applied

It is helping me answer my essential question, "What crime scene investigation position is most important to prosecuting a criminal?"  because the shows gave me a variety of jobs associated with crime scenes and it helps me see what they do to help in a case and which jobs, in my opinion, is the most helpful. For example, in "Deadly Women," psychologists give specific reason for these womens' intent to kill.