Crime Scene

A crime scene involves an area that has been linked to a crime. Crime scenes often contain physical evidence, including blood, fingerprints, and objects used in a criminal investigation. Law enforcement and crime scene investigators use equipment to collect evidence from the scene and document this evidence to record the truth. Please, see the articles below on crime scene.

June 01, 2020 | 9 minutes read

Fingerprint Evidence | Is it Suitable for Trial Court?

For anyone involved, investigators or attorneys, a basic understanding of the fingerprint collection process, how they are located and lifted, can help everyone recognize inaccurate or faulty science in the results. If there is a need to cross-examine a crime scene specialist or as a witness to answer questions, an understanding of the techniques of locating, lifting, and identifying fingerprints is essential.

Hair Analysis | Science or Objective Opinion

As a crime scene investigator, it is essential to gather as much evidence as possible to solve the crime. This would include any available hair that can be analyzed. While hair analysis results cannot and should not distinctively point out your suspect. It can be the icing on the cake.

Crime scene evidence management

Managing evidence at a crime scene begins when the first responding officers arrive on the scene. We can define a “crime scene” as any location where evidence relating to a specific incident, would reasonably be expected to be found whether before, during, or after the crime. As radio dispatchers broadcast information about a reported incident, […]