What Happens When Investigators Enter A Mysterious Crime Scene.
Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories
Bill Cannon Police off the Cuff/Real Crime Stories
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🗓️ 28 February 2025
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Sergeant, all of your years' experience, have you ever entered a scene that's mysterious? |
| 0:03.8 | Yes, yes. |
| 0:05.5 | You're presented with a scenario in a scene, and then you have to figure out what happened. |
| 0:11.7 | But guess what? |
| 0:13.0 | You don't do it alone. |
| 0:14.6 | There are many professional investigators. |
| 0:17.1 | And I mentioned once they responded to this scene, they would have immediately called the crime scene unit, right? |
| 0:24.9 | First the detectives, then the crime scene unit. |
| 0:27.5 | And they would do all the things that investigators do. |
| 0:31.4 | And crime scene unit would forensically process this scene. |
| 0:35.6 | They would photograph, videotape, take measurements, take note |
| 0:39.9 | of where things were, take note of things like pill bottles that were spilled over. How does that look? |
| 0:47.1 | Why did that happen, right? And then once the crime scene unit is done with their measurements, |
| 0:54.0 | they're taking perhaps samples, |
| 0:56.7 | if there's anything that appears to be blood anywhere, checking to see if there are any areas |
| 1:01.8 | that could have been forced entry, and photographing and videotaping everything. |
| 1:07.2 | Then the medical examiner's office comes to the scene. And I mentioned an investigator called a medical legal investigator, who in most jurisdictions |
| 1:18.6 | are physicians' assistants, and they process the bodies on the scene, which includes |
| 1:25.6 | checking the bodies for wounds, taking the temperature of the body, |
| 1:31.3 | and doing all checking, of course, for rigor mortis, algamortis. In this case, they were an extreme |
| 1:37.2 | state of decomposition, which was mummification. There's something before mummification, I think, is called putrefaction. |
| 1:47.8 | So they could have been dead as long as two weeks. |
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