FIVS 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Corpus Delicti, Modus Operandi
2 Dec 2015
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Primary crime scene: site of the original crime. Secondary crime scene: site of any following crimes. Ex: killed a man in a living room(primary) took his body to a car trunk(secondary) and dumped it in the woods (secondary) Macroscopic crime scene: the big crime scene. ex: a house. Microscopic crime scenes: crime scenes, not big ex: a body, the wounds of the body, and the floor around the body. Objectives of any crime scene investigation are to recognize, preserve, collect, and interpret alll of the physical evidence at a crime scene with the goal of reconstructing the events. Examples of types of information that can be obtained from forensic testing. Linking murder weapons to potiental suspects, linking a victim wearing stripper clothes to a strip club, etc. Investigative leads: physical evidence providing direct information to an investigator. However, not all physical evidence will be directly linked to a suspect.
