Mystery Unit Vocabulary Practice

A reason for doing something

• alibi

• motive

• sleuth

• crime

A person who is to believed to have possibly committed the crime

• suspect

• motive

• sleuth

• witness

Someone who saw the crime being committed and can provide some information

• suspect

• red herring

• sleuth

• witness

An excuse that a suspect uses to show that he or she was somewhere other than at the scene of the crime

• suspect

• DNA

• alibi

• evidence

A false lead that throws the investigator off track

• forensics

• inference

• red herring

• evidence

Federal Bureau of Investigation

• forensics

• FBI

• clue

• victim

Someone who is harmed or suffers some loss because of the crime

• FBI

• alibi

• witness

• victim

Another name for a detective

• sleuth

• red herring

• forensics

• witness

A person who investigates mysteries and gathers information

• victim

• red herring

• detective

• witness

The material located inside a cell that is the carrier of your genetic information

• forensics

• sleuth

• inference

• DNA