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Question 1. Describe in four steps how footwear impressions in soft surfaces are collected.

Question 2. How can the analysis of footwear impressions help to determine the activity of the person wearing the shoes? Provide an example as part of your answer.

Question 3. Describe what FBI agent William Bodziak did when he could not find a match for the sole pattern exhibited by the bloody shoe prints found at the O.J. Simpson crime scene. Explain whether he was successful.

Question 4. What are three causes of the unique characteristics found in tire treads?

Question 5. State one advantage and one disadvantage of soft tire treads.

Question 6. Provide three reasons tire impressions are photographed at a crime scene.

Question 7. Explain how tire impression evidence helped to identify the serial arsonists in Alabama in 2006.

Question 8. Identify three types of information that can be determined from tool mark evidence.

Question 9. Why is it important for investigators to find a tool used in a crime as soon as possible?

Question 10. Identify three types of trace evidence that might be found on the surface of a tool used to commit a crime.

Question 11. How do tool mark examiners compare a suspect tool with preserved tool marks from a crime scene?

Question 12. What was distinctive about the tire track prints found at the Mary Lou Arruda crime scene?

Question 13. How were police able to link James Kater's car tires to the tire tracks found at the crime scene?

Question 14. What specific information was determined from the bloody shoe prints left at the Catherine Woods crime scene?

Question 15. Explain whether the information specified in the last question helped to determine the identity of the killer.

Question 16. How did police collect fingerprints from Paul Cortez?