Catching the Killer

Detective Bobby approaches the scene as he notices a dead body on the sidewalk. This calls for an investigations by Crime Scene Investigators, he begins his job after alerting other officers and detectives about the tragedy. Crime Scene Investigators have so many jobs to do during their investigations. There are so many steps and processing into trying to figure out one important thing from all of the evidence that is on the crime scene. Step by step, everything that they notice and gather all leads to one thing. Crime scene investigators are specially trained police officers that are dispatched to a crime scene to analyze and document evidence. Their duties consist of detection, collection, preservation, packaging, transportation, and documentation of physical evidence left on a crime scene.

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To begin with, the first officer at the crime scene is in charge of protecting it. They will stand guard to make sure none of the evidence is messed with. To keep people from destroying or ruining any of the evidence they put up tape around the perimeter of the crime scene. They then walk through and take notes on any theories that they have of what might have of what happened. They search for obvious clues of what may have caused the catastrophe. In the article “The Day In The Life of a Crime Scene Investigator” by Giselle Tattrie, “Some of the evidence he or she will look for might include defense wounds if a struggle occurred or bloodstain patterns that might indicate if the body was moved.” They then check the body temperature to estimate the time of death, and get ready to transport the body and evidence to where they begin the study smaller evidence that may consist of fingerprints, wound openings and other clues to determine how they died, and who, if anyone, murdered them.

In conclusion I find this very interesting because of how all of the little steps, and pieces of evidence that they can find so much information. I think it’s crazy how it is almost impossible to not get away from murder do to all of the work done by crime scene investigators to find the murderer. I learned all of the little pieces of what it takes to be a crime scene investigator and I find it very interesting. I think that it is not the most important thing that everyone needs to know, but it is important to some people. I think it would be interesting to go through the process of finding one thing out from a series of smaller pieces, and this might just be a career I will look into in the future.