Murder Mystery Slideshow

Our Project

For this project we were first given a crime report of what happened that night of the murder. At the scene evidence was collected including a knife with fingerprints, a note, a broken glass with blood, and hair samples. We first looked at their family history and made pedigree charts to see how they were all tied to the suspect. We found that the fingerprints on the glass matched Carleton Comet and Nancy Normals. The ink from the pen matched Sam Sophomore and Nancy Normals. The blood matched Carleton Comet and Nancy Normal. With all this evidence, we came to the conclusion that Nancy Normal committed the murder. She later explained to us her motive. This included that fact that she has huntington's disease so her death was inevitable. Also the fact that Fred Flimmer, her lover, said he was going to leave her if she did not do him a favor. This favor included killing Carleton Comet, his father, due to the reason that he wanted to avenge his aunt and sisters death. Overall, the murder was caused by Fred Flimmer, but was committed by Nancy Normal.

Reflection

Overall I enjoyed this project and it was mostly positive with very few negatives. I learned many things including how to take fingerprints and test pen samples. The pen samples were probably my favorite because it made me think about projects I had done as a kid and how they were able to actually help now. I also learned how to find fingerprints and transfer them onto something readable and testable. However some aspects of this project were confusing and complicated including testing hair follicles and blood testing. The blood testing we did gave opposite results than they would normally which was confusing for a while, but once we understood it it was great. Testing hair follicles was also confusing because we had to look through a microscope but we weren´t really told what we were looking at. Throughout this project I learned many things even if they were confusing.