Indiana Tech’s Center for Criminal Science has created a three-day camp to give you hands-on experience in what it’s like to investigate a crime scene. Students who attend this camp will learn to process a crime scene while having fun!
During the camp, you and a group of your peers will be given the task of building a homicide case using evidence. You’ll process the crime scene, build a profile, analyze the evidence and reconstruct the crime. On the last day of camp, you’ll present your evidence and name your suspect.
Crime Scene Topics
The topics for the camp are as follows:
- Photography
- Evidence collection
- Trace evidence
- Mock biological evidence
- Collecting and lifting fingerprints
- Alternative light source
- Powder
- Cyanoacrylate lifting
- Crime scene documentation
- Crime scene reconstruction
- Criminal profiling
- Forensic analysis
- Fingerprints
- Firearms
- Bullet trajectories
- Blood stain patterns
- Blood testing
Crime Scene Accomplices
Steven F. Hundersmarck Ph.D.
Hundersmarck is the director of the Center for Criminal Science. He graduated with a doctorate in psychology from Michigan State University in 2004. He has a master’s degree in general business administration. His professional interests include police training, hostage negotiation, criminal behavior, criminal investigation and criminal profiling. He has published a number of articles related to each. Most recently he has published a guide for police officers to profile internet predators. Hundersmarck is also a retired police officer. He was a patrolman in Houston, Texas, for six years. For 14 years he was a police officer, detective, sergeant and chief of police in Michigan. Hundersmarck also was a hostage negotiator and negotiations team leader for 13 years.
Kim M. Spielman, J.D., M.P.A.
Spielman is an assistant professor of criminal justice at Indiana Tech. He graduated from the Pettit College of Law at Ohio Northern University with High Distinction in 1986. He also has a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice and a master’s degree in public administration from Indiana University. Prior to attending law school, Spielman was a police officer with the Fort Wayne Police Department for 10 years. His experience as an attorney included service as chief counsel deputy prosecuting in the Allen County Prosecutor’s Office and private practice, representing clients in both criminal and civil matters.
Detective Mark Brooks
Brooks is a 12-year veteran of the Fort Wayne Police Department and serves in the Robbery/Homicide Division. Brooks graduated from Indiana University –Bloomington with a degree in criminal Justice and minor in sociology and earned an MBA from Indiana Tech. He has taught numerous college level courses including criminal investigation, conflict resolution, crime scene investigation and death investigation. Brooks is also a member of the Northeast Indiana Federal Bank Robbery Task Force and is a deputy coroner.
