Investigation Techniques Of A Homicide

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of blood. The officers did not know if they were dead and if they were, how
and when. After the medical examiner looked at the bodies and the wounds on the
victims, he concluded that they were stabbed to death. The time of death was a
bit harder to determine. Death caused some changes to the bodies. The
investigator looked at the changes and was able to estimate a time of death.
Some of the changes the examiners look for are: lost of body temperature,
rigor mortis, and postmortem lividity. The body temperature will start to
decrease after death. The body will also start to stiffen after death, this is
call rigor mortis. Rigor mortis usually starts to set in two to four hours after
death. Time of death can be estimated by the stiffness of the body. Another way
to estimate the time of death is postmortem lividity. When the body ceased to
function, gravity pulls the blood down and settled at the lowest points of the
body. Postmortem lividity may appear on the body between half ...

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evidences had blood on them, the
were treated with extreme caution. The evidences were also collected in a paper
bag to prevent moisture build-up, hence ruining the evidences.

DOCUMENTING THE SCENE
The first officers on the scene had taken some notes regarding the
murder case. The investigators made more detailed notes. They also made sketches
of the scene. They marked down where Nicole Simpson's body was and the patterns
which the blood splattered. They did the same thing with Ron Goldman's body. The
investigators also wrote down where every thing was found and marked them on
their sketches.
On their reports, there were the overall description of the scene, date
time and location, ...

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