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Welcome to Crime and Clues

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Welcome to Crime & Clues.  You may be wondering- what is this site about?  And, how do I find what I'm looking for?

It's pretty simple, what we're about is providing information on Criminal Investigation and Forensic Science.  We have articles and news items primarily targeted towards Police Officers, Detectives, Crime Scene Investigators and Forensic Scientists.

On the top of the left column you will find the main menu, which is broken down by category.  Many of the entries are self-explanatory.  
 
Under News and Reviews you will in fact find news items, book and equipment reviews and editorial comments.  
Behavioral Evidence includes Criminal Profiling and Criminal Psychology.  
Death Investigation covers Pathology, Anthropology and Entomology.  
Demonstrative Evidence includes Photography and Diagrams.  
Digital Evidence covers both Computer Examinations and Digital Image Enhancement.  
Crime Scene Investigation has articles on Crime Scene Protection, Crime Scene Processing and Crime Scene Reconstruction.  
Courtroom Testimony and Ethics covers the process of testifying in court and ethical considerations faced by investigators and scientists.  
Physical Evidence includes Fingerprints, Impression Evidence- shoe prints, tire prints and bite marks; and Trace Evidence and DNA.  
Testimonial Evidence covers both Interviews and Interrogations and Statement Analysis.  
The Training Calendar has listings of upcoming training courses related to criminal investigation and forensic science.  If you would like your event listed just drop me a line at:   This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Search allows you to search the site and in the Store you can find a variety of items from Amazon.com which are in some way related to investigations, as well as some t-shirts and other novelty items.  
Last but not least is the Contact category which contains information about how to get in touch with us should you need to do so.

Each section has it's own list of Resources, which will appear in the left column beneath the main menu.  So for each topic for instance you will find a resource entry pointing to our collection of external web links on that particular subject.  Depending on the topic you will also find links to mailing lists and news feeds related to the subject.

Also in the left column on the main page you will find a Login form, which will allow you to create an account on the site.  It is possible to limit some of the content on the site to registered members only, however, we have no such content at the current time.  It is also possible that we may, at some point, send out an e-mail newsletter to registered users.  

At the bottom of the main page you will find two sections, one of which shows a list of the latest articles posted to the site.  The second section shows the most popular articles.

Finally at the bottom are links to our Privacy Policy, Copyright Information and Terms of Use.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 18 November 2009 20:25
 

Documenting Bloodstain Patterns

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There's a good article on the "Roadmapping" technique for documenting bloodstain patterns available from Forensic Magazine. 

"The road mapping technique was developed by Toby L.Wolson of the Miami-Dade Police Department’s Crime Laboratory and it allows for complete photo documentation of bloodstain patterns.4 The procedure involves using overall, medium, and close-up photographs combined with labels and scales. Separate pattern groups are identified and labeled and then important stains within that group are further identified and labeled accordingly. The labels and scales serve as “road signs” in the photographs and ensure that viewers are never “lost.” Most importantly, using this technique will allow others to properly analyze the patterns from the photographs without ever being present at the scene."

Even if you don't have training in bloodstain pattern analysis, you should be able to document the stains so that someone can analyze them later.  The article spells out the equipment and process, and includes some example photos.

Click here for the rest of the article.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 04 November 2009 16:15
 

The National Museum of Crime and Punishment

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February 17, 2009

Opened May 23rd, 2008 at 575 7th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20004.

If you are in DC, take the opportunity to visit the museum. It's definitely on my list of things I want to see when I get a chance to visit the Capitol.

For more info check out their website at: http://www.crimemuseum.org/
 

The Fitted-In Project

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February 17, 2009

Update 5-6-2009: News release updated to current version.

Satish Sekar has a website devoted to his quest to prevent miscarriage of justice in the UK. You can read more about it below, and hit the link for all the latest updates.

News Release

http://www.fittedin.com/

Introduction:

Over ten years ago we published Satish Sekar's book 'Fitted In: The Cardiff 3 and the Lynette White Inquiry' in order to provoke changes in the law to help to reduce the risk of miscarriages of justice. They will occur in any jurisdiction, but measures can be taken to ensure that they are swiftly corrected. Advances in forensic science techniques offer an opportunity not only to correct miscarriages of justice, but to catch the truly guilty as well. The Lynette White case illustrates this, with the conviction of the true offender, Jeffrey Gafoor in 2003 and in 2008 the first convictions of those who had colluded in giving perjured evidence in the wrongful prosecution of the original defendants. However, there is now an urgent need to disseminate information efficiently and to make it accessible to the public, so that the original purpose of Sekar's book can be accomplished. An informed society is a protected one.
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Forensic Article from New York Times

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May 12, 2009

Plugging Holes in the Science of Forensics
Published: May 12, 2009
A push in forensic science for the kind of rigorous, peer-reviewed research that is the hallmark of classic science.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/science/12fore.html
Last Updated on Friday, 25 September 2009 16:54
 
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