Currently in the Forensics Lab course, Mr. Henkenmeier and his class are working with footprint analysis.  This lab replicates what a criminal investigation team would do if they found a shoe print at a crime scene.  This is a four part lab - first, the students mix up mud in baking pans and press a sneaker sole into the mud; second, they prepare a casting using plaster of Paris; third, they remove and clean the casting; fourth, they must identify which sneaker made the original impression.

Photos by Kayla Kalin and Michael Coule

 

Mixing up the Mud

 

Finding the Criminal sneaker print