This is Australian True Crime with Michelle Laurie and as promised we are back today with the legendary Charlie Bozina.

But this time you can watch the interview in full living colour if you want by checking out the Australian True Crime YouTube channel.

There is of course a link in the show notes.

Charlie is here to talk about some of the stranger and more unpredictable investigations he was part of during his decades as a

detective with Victoria Police. This is Australian True Crime. We acknowledge the traditional

owners of the land on which this podcast is created, the Warrundri Woi Warang people of the Koolan Nation.

And a warning, this episode of the podcast contains graphic descriptions of violence.

Crime scenes have a set process you follow.

And so do post-mortems.

You go there and it's okay, you look at the body, you photograph it, do that, then you strip it, then you wash it down and do stuff, and away you go. And then ultimately, and then we work, it works so well, because then you've got to keep saying, well, I'm the investigator. They're the tools that help me. Yeah. Whilst I'm the face of the investigations of the team behind me from pathologists, my team members, and the like. So the pathologist said, well, anything else do you want to cover off? Oh, can you do the, you know, can you just swab and say, it might be a rape or something? Or can you just swab here and can you swab there for any DNA and something that they may overlook and stuff like that. So the more eyes on it, the better.

How many people are at the crime scene, say a body's been found and it's a violent attack?

You've got, because I know that the police have their forensics team as well. So there's the

mortuary guys, the pathologists. Yeah. So you start off with a crime

scene examiner and then a photographer, in my days, photographer, video operator, and then if

it's a shooting, you've got the ballistics guy with you, and if it's a stabbing as such,

or even with the blood splatter, you've got a biologist with you for blood splatter interpretation. And if it's a stabbing as such, or even with the blood splatter, you've got a biologist

with you for blood splatter interpretation. You've got a pathologist with you if they see the body

in situ. And then your team members, not we all go in there, and then you sit back, wait for it

will be processed. And you want to keep it to the minimum of going to a crime scene, but other than that,

you might have six or eight in any given time with those resources so they can take it all

up there, so away you go.

And then uniform out the front keeping everyone else away.

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