It is notoriously difficult for law enforcement personnel, crime scene technicians and the medical examiner to preserve an outdoor crime scene. When a murder, rape or other victimization occurs outdoors, the factors that can compromise a crime scene increase dramatically, and valuable evidence can be lost. When preserving an outdoor crime scene, law enforcement personnel ...
If you are a fan of one of the popular crimes shows on television like CSI or LAW & ORDER, you’ve seen your fair share of gruesome crime scenes. You are probably well acquainted with how coroners evaluate a body for physical evidence of what killed or injured the victim. You know how crime scene ...
A good way to generate new avenues of an investigation that has come to an impasse is to use crime scene reconstruction, as well as crime scene profiling also known as psychological profiling. Crime scene profiling is different from crime scene reconstruction. Unlike crime scene reconstruction that attempts to determine “what happened and how it ...
Essentially, the evidence that is gather at a crime scene can make or break a case. Logically, the easier cases to prosecute tend to be the ones that have more physical evidence since the authorities have more ways to link a suspect to a crime. However, even if they find a defendant’s bloody fingerprints all ...
Computers aren’t just for Wall Street traders and web site designers, and are in fact used by many areas of law enforcement. The federal government implements many innovative programs for identifying criminals based on fingerprints, resurrecting an individual’s criminal record, and even for crime scene analysis. Software is an integral part of the forensics used ...
Crime scenes are not always dangerous for the CSI techs and investigators, but when safety hazards exist, appropriate precautions must be taken. Fortunately, technology has allowed us to develop new techniques for keeping professionals away from harm, and crime scenes are processed with much more care than they were in the past. Following are some ...
Some people do not realize that when a serial killer, serial rapist or any other serious criminal is on the loose a specialist known as a criminal profiler is brought onto the case to “profile” the criminal. When a profiler is called into the investigation, long hours of work begin for he/she on the case. ...
