Did you know?

· When a serial killer kills someone the victims usually have something in common, occupation, race, appearance, or gender.
· There are certain steps that Forensic Scientist follow to catch a serial killer:
o Interview
o Examine
o Photograph
o Sketch
o Process
· Serial killers have patterns
· Computers can help to catch a serial killer
· In 2007 there were 16,929 murders
· There are a few people that work on a crime scene:
o There’s the first officer
o Patrol Supervisor
o Detective
· When a serial killer is going to kill someone they need to watch what they are doing. So that they don’t make any mistakes that will tie them to the murder.
· CATCH – Computer Acided Tracking and Characterization of Homicides. It helps catch a murder.
· 85% of the world’s serial killers are in AmericaThere are 20 – 50 unidentified active serial killers at any given time

Today I finished my collage and put it on my blog as a gadget. I started looking up Did you know? information about serial killers

Questions

Essentional Question:

1. How do Serial Killers get away with murder?

Foundation Question:

Forensic Scientist:

1. What do forensic scientist look for at a crime scene?
2. What are somethings that forensic scientist might miss on a crime scene?
3. What do you see on a crime scene?
4. How do you catch a serial killer?

Serial Killers:

1. How do serial killers cover their tracks?
2. How many serial killers are alive today?
3. Do serial killers plan their murder?
4. How many murders are there in a year? Solved and unsolved?

I made a gadget today of 10 key terms that will help me with my project. And also clarify some of the meanings of certain words. I also read a couple pages of the book that I have about Serial Killers. This book is helping understand some of the things that certain serial killers did to cover there tracks and how some of the got caught.

Today I got a couple of key terms that I defined. Also I have writen some foundation questions that I have.
1. What do forensic scientist look for at a crime scene?
2. What do serial killers do to cover their tracks?
3. What are somethings that forensic scientist might miss on a crime scene?
4. What are somethings you might see on a crime scene?
5. How many serial killers are alive today?
6. Why do people become serial killers?
7. How do you catch a serial killer?
These are the questions that I have came up with so far.

Today I finished looking for my website that will help me on my topic. Also today I came up with a couple more questions that I had about my topic. And I read a few pages of the book that Megan lent me. Over the weekend I was trying to think of different TV shows and movies that relate to serial killers or murders.

Over the past couple of days I have been looking up different web sites that could help me with my topic. I have also been reading the book that Megan let me borrow. Also I have writen some other questions that I either had about my topic and relate to it.

What I am going to do

Megan lend me a book that is about serial killers that I am going to read.To get ready for the interviews I am going to come up with questions I am going to ask them. I am not sure when the interviews are going to happen but all I know is that it is going to happen soon, probably within the next couple of weeks. I found a few websites that relate to my essential question, how do serial killers get away with murder?

Topic

I am going to do my graduation project on serial killers and what happens on a murder scene. I know some people that I am will be able to talk to. I know someone that is a cop and that is going to school for Forensic Science, I believe. I am going to interview them and get some ideas about what they do and/or see on a murder scene. Then I was thinking about maybe after I get more information about my topic I might make a short film of a murder.

Assignment One

1. I really have not heard much about graduation project at City High. I do know that the graduation project is to be taken very seriously, it is very important. I do not know of any 12th grade students that have completed their graduation project.
2. I am interested in TV shows like CSI or movies like the Zodiac. I want to do my graduation project on murders, serial killers, or even what the crime investigraters do on a crime scene.
3. The only thing that I am really concerned about is that I have no idea how I could get involved in a topic like this.