Reflection Paper On Forensic Cases

O.J. Simpson, JonBenet Ramsey, Jodi Arias, the Menendez Brothers. Exhilarating accounts of murder that have captivated a nation for decades. 24/7 Forensic Files sparked an interest that resulted in me delving into research-based novels on some of America’s most infamous forensic cases. This series had me hooked and nurtured my passion for forensics.
Dirty little secrets, something everyone has, but how often do they lead to a hatred so deep that murder seems to be the only way to end the escapade that has resulted from them. Murder intrigues people. It stirs their imaginations and causes them to fantasize about motives, the events leading up, and even what the scene of the crime may have looked like. When a case comes up everyone plays the

What topic would they choose, how long would there be to do it, why on earth would a teacher make students milk a topic to the point where they had five pages filled with in-text citations, thesis statements, and four to six body paragraphs. A week had gone by and I still had nothing. No topic, no thesis, no introductory paragraph. After searching high and low seeking a topic that sparked my interest enough to attach it to such a task. There had to be something I had not thought of yet. An ingenious idea that would surely be riveting enough to earn me an outstanding grade on this research paper. Then one day it hit me. Forensics! I checked out every 24/7 Forensic Files book that my class library had and got to work. The topic was seamless. I soon learned that forensics has a multitude of branches that allowed you to do almost any job in relation to a crime. Anthropology, toxicology, ballistics. A world of options had been opened and I was more than ready to explore it. Once I discovered a topic that was of true interest to me the paper became significantly easier to write. I put in hours of research, explored colleges, and even explored different forensic science related camps that I could

I immediately knew that forensics was what I wanted to do, but I still had so much to learn about the field of study. My sophomore year of high school in my civics class I realized that I also had a passion for law. This led to me meeting with my school’s career counselor and my civics teacher to try and figure which one I should choose. Kerri Loury, my guidance counselor, advised me to join Wayne County’s Teen Court program my junior year and after meeting with several people who worked in both law and forensics I discovered that I could do both. I quickly scrambled to find out how I could go about doing both and I talked with several people who work for Wayne County to plan out my career path. My junior year also led to me taking physical science that caused me to want to take a forensic chemistry direction with my career. Chemistry opens a lot of doors in forensics and has many fun components that would continue to make the job enjoyable for me. This summer I hope to attend a three-week forensic science program at Yale University to help me affirm my interest in this field and meet others who have the same aspirations as