Evidence can be direct or circumstantial. What is the difference? Direct evidence refers to evidence that establishes a fact. A good example of direct evidence is statements or confessions made by the witnesses. Circumstantial evidence, on the flipside, requires that a judge and/or jury make indirect judgments, or inferences, about what transpired at the scene [...]
Mail this post Evidence refers to anything that can be used to find out whether a crime has been perpetrated. Evidence may tie a perpetrator to a scene, support or deny an alibi or statement, identify the offender or victim, exonerate an innocent individual, induce a confession, or warrant further investigation.
All evidence is not the same. Depending on [...]
Mail this post Staging occurs when an offender tries to make the scene look like something else than what actually occurred. The most common staging scene happens when somebody tries to make a murder look like an accident or a suicide. The perpetrator may move the body to a different location or clean particular places. Supposed a boyfriend, [...]
Mail this post You have seen all the gore associated with dead bodies in the TV show CSI when the forensic medical examiner cuts open the stiffs and exposes the meaty entrails of the deceased.
In reality, when is a dead body autopsied? Under what circumstances is a death reported to a medical examiner (ME) for investigation?
The investigation of [...]
Mail this post If you are a fan of CSI, you may have noticed that one of the clues that crime scene investigators (CSI’s) obtain from the scene is tire impressions.These tire impressions could mean which motor vehicle was used to transport a dead body to or from a scene of a murder.
How do investigators go about getting [...]
Mail this post Suppose a person became the victim of a hit-and-run accident in which the perpetrator drove off without stopping to check if anybody got hurt yet leaving clues of broken glass at the scene of the crime.
How do crime scene investigators (CSI’s) go about studying the shards of glass? In this article, I will attempt to [...]
Mail this post What could be worse than somebody willing to betray his friends, family, and country for the sake of money? Many juries will respond “nobody” and may even ignore information provided by a rat, or informant in court.
Known to the crooks on the street as rats, confidential informants or plainly informants are a valuable asset to [...]
Mail this post Perceptive interrogators measure credibility of an individual to arrive at the truth of their statements.
Kinesiology, the study of body language, speaks louder than words to those who know how to “read” body language. A person who is lying to you rarely makes eye contact, covers his mouth, scratches his nose, rubs the back of his [...]
Mail this post Humans are taught to believe that lying is morally and biblically wrong. They do not like to lie but do so consciously or unconsciously when they are under pressure. Lying produces nervousness and anxiety. These two conditions in turn produce distinct physiological effects that are sometimes visible and most often measurable in a lie detection [...]
Mail this post Suppose a person died from blunt force trauma to the head, and the victim’s blood is found everywhere at the scene of the crime. How do forensic crime scene investigators determine if a blunt object was the cause of the trauma? If so, how to investigators go about analyzing blood spatter?
The objective of this article [...]
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