August 4-5, 2005
AGENDA
Thursday, Aug. 4
9:00 Orientation, receive t-shirts
9:15- 10:15 Mock trial
10:15 Break
10:30-12:00 Visit crime scene
12:00 Lunch
12:45 Begin processing
samples in small groups. (
3:00-3:15 Break
3:15 – 5:00 Continue lab work. Revisit scene if necessary.
5:00 - 6:00 Free time
6:00 Dinner
7:00- 9:00 Meet with Lawyers, begin planning strategy
9:00- 11:00 Evening Activities
11:30 Lights out
Friday, Aug. 5
7:00 Rise & Shine
8:00 Breakfast
9:00 Set up to analyze real DNA
10:15 Break
10:30 Headliners and Career – Explore careers
available in biotechnology, sciences, ag
science, forensic science, etc. Anyone
there from
Finish DNA banding.
12:00 Lunch (Cabins need to be empty for inspection)
12:45 Review data
1:15 Ethics panel
2:00-3:15 Prepare for murder trial
3:15 Conduct trial
4:30 Trial concludes, adults process experience with kids
4:45-5:00 Evaluation, questions, other wrap-up info as needed.
5:00 Leave camp
RESOURCES
Kathy Junker, Cooperative Extension
agent – 4-H Youth Development
Responsibilities:
Overall coordinator and manager
Introduce team on day one
Responsible for room set up
Manage agenda for easy flow
Coordinate meals
Liaison with camp staff for meeting rooms
Solicit student
participants, high school and adult volunteers, community professionals,
Arrange media coverage
Check with court system for real judge, prosecutor, defense atty. for trial
Roy Gaunce - Nicholas Coroner
Responsibilities:
Create crime scene with State Police
Testify at mock trial if appropriate to scenario
Work crime scene with State Police gathering crime scene evidence
Provide an autopsy report of findings and determine cause of death (to be used in student trial)
__(Shain
Stevens - still not confirmed)__–
Responsibilities:
Create crime scene with Deputy Coroner
Testify at mock trial if appropriate to scenario
Work crime scene with Deputy Coroner gathering crime scene evidence
Testify at trial reporting appropriate results of physical evidence
Ethics panelists:
Ernie Carmichael - Methodist minister
Mike Phillips – Extension Agriculture Agent
Shelley Gabriel - Physicians Assistant
Keiko Tanaka -
Headliners & Careers - David Hidebrand,
Additional Volunteers:
Teens: Paul Adkins, Samantha Justice, Chelsea Bentley
Adults: Novella Froman, Sherrill Bentley and Kathy Junker (Agents), Jennifer Lynn (Environmental Camp Coordinator), Bill Billman, Diana Wilson (Lewis Co. adult volunteers)
David Hidebrand -
Responsibilities:
Coordinate with appropriate staff all lab activity and supplies
Play a part in mock trial in whatever role required
Presnet Headliners & Careers (provide up to date info on what is happening in the news and careers available across program areas in biotechnology)
Provide Clay & Scott with learning outcomes for experiments that would be appropriate for assessment tool
Coordinate with Kathy UK personnel to help with the biotech camp
Critique camp to make sure we are in compliance with Venture grant guidelines.
Scott & Clay
Responsibilities:
Play a role on the mock trial as needed
Set up lab experiments and provide educational activities
Provide assessment outcomes
Serve as expert witness in trial if necessary
Keiko Tanaka, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Department of Community & Leadership Development
Responsibilities:
Serve on ethics panel
Help with Headliners (careers) if needed
Additional Notes:
Laurie will take care of supplying snacks, beverages, etc.
No swimming will be permitted
The Mock trial and Friday trial have only been changed to reflect new names or locations. Any changes that have been made to the general scenarios are not known to Kathy. People have been assigned a spot on the mock trial but not the real trial.
We will make s’mores Thursday evening. Need someone who knows how to build a camp fire. Same person needs to be SURE fire is out at end of evening as the area is very DRY. Camp has sticks we can use for roasting. Camp wood should be there.
KJ has ordered t-shirts.
KJ will provide craft supplies to make DNA strand if we need that activity.
Assessment tool being written by Clay and Scott should be given at both beginning and end of camp. KJ will provide pencils.
MOCK TRIAL
Citizen George Brown vs. Farmer Roy Wood,
North Central 4-H Camp,
August 4, 2005
PARTICIPANTS:
George Brown (rose expert): Clay
Farmer Wood (cattle farmer): Scott
Farmer Johnson’s wife (chicken & hog farmer): Novella
Widow Nelson (dairy farmer): Sherrill
SITUATION:
Mr. George
Brown and Farmer Wood are neighbors, sharing a 500 foot property line in rural
Mr. Brown is always upset with Farmer Wood because the cattle have been out a couple of times, roaming through his yard, damaging his flower gardens and leaving piles of manure on his manicured lawn. His hobby is growing and propagating show roses. He has patented two new varieties and, after 5 years of research, is close to perfecting a new “blue rose” variety.
Mr. Brown is not well liked by any of his neighbors. On the other side of Brown’s property lives Farmer Johnson, who has 20 head of cattle, 5 fertile sows, one boar, and about 27 baby pigs. His biggest economic venture, however, is his barn of about 120 laying hens. Mr. Brown constantly complains about the smell.
The land behind the Brown home is a vacant field and often attracts kids on four wheelers. The noise is particularly offensive to Mr. Brown and he has called the local police numerous times to report them.
Across from
Mr. Brown lives Widow Nelson, who still has the family
When Mr. Brown returned from a two week vacation, he found his rose gardens trampled and his “blue rose” experimental bush crushed to the ground, dying and turning brown. Five black and white cows were in the yard. Several cow paddies covered with flies, spotted his yard. A hole was in Farmer Wood’s fence. Mr. Brown blamed Farmer Wood for the loss and is suing him for a million dollars in damages and potential loss of income.
Farmer Wood contends his cattle have not been out. He explained the broken fence was caused by a tree blowing down on it in a recent storm. Just that morning the tree was removed from the fence so he could repair it.
When Mr. Brown discovered the dying rose bush, he immediately called the police. Police Detective Short arrived on the scene and gathered the evidence. It included:
· the dying rose bush
· samples from three different cow paddies
· some hoof prints and a size 13 right boot print and a partial print, possibly a size 10 heel print. There were other prints but none clear enough to positively ID.
· a sample of blood and hair on a partially destroyed Pink Lady rose bush
· a chicken feather
Based on the evidence retrieved and the lab results, the case went to trial.
(According to the State Police, a cow getting out and damaging property does not constitute a crime unless we can show malicious intent on the part of Farmer Wood, Johnson or Widow Nelson to destroy the “blue rose” bush. This would be tried as a civil case).
Evidence:
Farmer Wood’s cow could not have destroyed the bush because the hole in the fence from the downed tree was not exposed until just a few hours before Mr. Brown returned from vacation. The rose bush was already dying. However, Farmer Wood does wear a size 13 boot.
There is no history of having problems with Farmer Johnson’s cows. However, both Johnson and Wood have black and white cows. The problem with this neighbor was the smell of the pigs and chickens. A close look at the cattle herd revealed one of the cows had a flesh wound that was beginning to heal.
We can prove the cow which was in the garden had a small hoof, similar to the size of a dairy cow. However, both Farmer s Wood and Johnson have some young heifers in their herds.
Three weeks ago Widow Nelson heard Farmer Johnson and Mr. Brown having heated words about the smell of the pigs and chickens. Mr. Brown threatened Johnson to do something about the smell or he would put him out of business.
Final analysis:
Widow Nelson’s dairy cow got out of the barn stall when she left it unlocked after the evening milking. She was grazing in Mr. Brown’s yard and garden when she was spooked by one of Farmer Johnson’s chickens and took off through the rose garden. When Widow Nelson discovered what was going on, she called Farmers Wood and Johnson to come help her catch Betsy and return her to the stall in the barn. In the dark, no one noticed the destroyed rose bush.
CSI MURDER MYSTERY:
The Case of the Missing Formula
& the Murder of Professor Karen Phillips
SITUATION:
At 10:15 a.m. students attending a 4-H biotechnology camp discovered a dead body as they took a morning walk. As they arrive on the scene, the Kentucky State Highway Patrolman is putting up a yellow crime scene tape to preserve the scene. The female body was discovered lying near one of the cabins by Camp employee Jennifer Lynn at 8:30. The employee called the state police around 9:30. The coroner had already arrived and watched as the State Trooper began gathering evidence that will help determine what happened at the scene. He sees several stab wounds in the chest, defensive wounds on the wrists and hands. He gathers samples under her nails, blood samples, takes photos of body and a nearby footprint. There is also a scrap of fabric with some blood on it caught on some nearby twigs. He bags all the evidence and the coroner places the body in a body bag to be taken to the morgue for autopsy.
VICTIM:
Students
learn the victim is a visitor to the Camp. She was to speak to the
biotechnology camp that afternoon. Professor
Karen Phillips is an assistant professor and researcher at the
Professor Phillips was 26 years old, married and had a medium size frame. She was a workaholic, often putting in 70 hour weeks for the last 12 years, trying to perfect the cloning formula. She was a chain smoker but had recently quit. Though very feminine in all outwards appearances, her favorite past time was gambling on professional sports games and she was heavily indebted to the Mafia .
SUSPECTS:
Four suspects quickly surfaced as the detective began his investigation:
Professor Chappell: The Professor had spent many long hours working on the cloning formula and felt he had more ownership to the formula than Phillips did. MOTIVE: He was jealous that at her young age, SHE was the one who made the critical DNA sequencing connection. He thought he deserved the recognition alone.
Jennifer Lynn: Jennifer worked hard as a
Environmental Camp Coordinator. While
having dinner with Phillips and several other
Bob Cannolli: Bob is the bookie Phillips uses to place her bets on the sports games. He has been tracking Phillips to collect his overdue fee. She never returns his calls. MOTIVE: Bob figures if he could get hold of the formula, he could sell it to counter Phillips’ debt and use the rest of the money for some serious betting on his own. He might even put his arch rival Ted Buschetti out of business.
Paul Smith: Mr. Smith overheard the dinner conversation the night before while he and his family were eating in the Camp dining room. He had always dreamed of his daughter having the Grand Champion 4-H steer at the county fair and maybe even the Kentucky State Fair. MOTIVE: If he could get hold of the formula, he could have the County Ag Agent help him improve his herd and insure he would have the prize winning animal the next year.
Ken Phillips, the husband:
Though the couple has been married for only two years, the fight a lot
about Karen’s gambling debt. Currently,
Mr. Phillips is in the
EVIDENCE:
Shoe print: Shoe size and tread fit Jennifer Lynn’s shoe. She admits to finding the body and moving it into the shade.
Chest wounds: T-shirt is covered with blood and shows several slash marks, presumably from a knife. The Autopsy report shows a knife-like instrument entered the body at a right-to-left angle with the victim’s body.
Wounds on wrists and hands: The wounds on her hands and wrists indicate she may have tried to fight off her attacker. That suggests she was on the shore while being attacked. She either then fell in the water or was pushed in.
Fingernail scrapings: Forensic lab is processing for fiber and possible DNA sample. No report yet.
Fabric with blood stain: Fabric is being analyzed to match clothing worn by suspects and the blood sample for DNA evidence. No report yet.
Empty soda pop can: A can has been discarded near the scene. There is some blood and a partial fingerprint.
Trail of blood: In addition to a pool of blood on the right side of the body, there is a trail of blood leading to, or from, the body.
A driver’s license: The license is found in the right shorts pocket of the victim. It contains name. Address, social security number and the information that she is married.