...The purpose of crime scene investigation is to help establish what happened (crime scene reconstruction) and to identify the responsible person. This is done by carefully documenting the conditions at a crime scene and recognizing all relevant physical evidence. The ability to recognize and properly collect physical evidence is oftentimes critical to both solving and prosecuting violent crimes. It is no exaggeration to say that in the majority of cases, the law enforcement officer who protects and searches a crime scene plays a critical role in determining whether physical evidence will be used in solving or prosecuting violent crimes. Documenting crime scene conditions can include immediately recording transient details such as lighting (on/off), drapes (open/closed), weather, or furniture moved by medical teams. Certain evidence such as shoeprints or gunshot residue is fragile and if not collected immediately can easily be destroyed or lost. The scope of the investigation also extends to considerations of arguments which might be generated in this case (suicide/self-defense) and documenting conditions which would support or refute these arguments. In addition, it is important to be able to recognize what should be present at a scene but is not (victim's vehicle/wallet) and objects which appear to be out of place (ski mask) and might have been left by the assailant. It is also important to determine the full extent of a crime scene. A crime scene is not merely the immediate area...
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...18, she left her home town, Massachusetts, and set out to Hollywood to do what she wanted. After a while, she was well known for her beauty, her love for black, and friendliness, some may even say she was promiscuous. Later, she was known as Black Dahlia because as wore black quite often and she got the lead in a play, as Dahlia. Elizabeth wanted something more, she wanted everyone around the world to know her for her amazing acting, and she wanted to be in the papers worldwide. Her name was finally in the papers, but not for the reasons she expected. Her unsolved murder shocked Hollywood for more than half a century. On January 15, 1947, Elizabeth Short or The Black Dahlia was found dead on the side of the road near 39th street and Coliseum by a woman who was walking with her daughter. She quickly ran across the street to a home to make a phone call to the police. The crime scene immediately filled with police man after the phone call. Elizabeth’s body was surgically cut in half from the waist and bisected. One of her breasts was slightly sliced, rope burns were found on her wrists, ankles, and neck and her mouth had slashes from ear to ear making a disgusting smile. The police found a petite amount of blood, so they figured it indicated that body was washed before ditched on the side. Finding the killer of the Black Dahlia became the top priority for all investigators. Steven Hodel was a detective for homicide for LAPD.3 He was called to investigate Elizabeth Shorts case...
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...The black dahlia seems to be the most perplexing case in the history of the United States. Many factors of the crime are unknown and the case remains unsolved. On the morning of January 15, 1947, the body of a young woman was discovered, sliced in half and completely naked. This gruesome scene was discovered by a mother who was taking her child for a walk in Los Angeles, California. The reporting party noted that the body was posed in such a way that it appeared to be a mannequin. Blood was absent on the scene, indicating the murder took place elsewhere (“The Black Dahlia”). The young woman was later identified as Elizabeth Short, an aspiring actress from Massachusetts. Short had moved to Vallejo, California in the early months of 1943 in order...
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...JonBenet Ramsey was a very beautiful pageant girl who died December 25,1996. Her case was never solved and it has been twenty years. The belief of this case has been unsolved for multiple reasons.According to deep research she found in the wine cellar of the family house taped up with a fractured skull. They found a suppose it ransom note,but they couldn’t find any DNA on the note.Also in that ransom note they say it's similar to the mother’s handwriting in the note and the sharpie came from the house. They found the murder weapon to be a flashlight and she was battered with it. As well as seeing the evidence lead up to no clues on her murder,but they found the range of how she was hit and they believed it was a young child. Also in the intense they couldn’t find any true evidence if it was true. Her brother was most under investigation, because he had a pure hate it for his sister. They had to investigate 140 people who could be the actually suspect in the crime. The case took so long they had to move the case to the FBI,because the family thought the police wasn’t working hard enough. Her brother had a complex issues with himself and he wanted he sister gone. The evidence found couldn’t define it was him or not they felt a hunch that could have been him that night....
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...In a small area of London in 1888 a mystery happened and to this day hasn’t been solved. August seventh through September tenth, five women were murder. Who murder these women that all lived a mile from each other. Suddenly, the murder disappeared in the fall of 1888. What happened to this unidentified character? Why didn't they perform more murders like they threatened to? In a small area of London lived a girl named Lucy. Lucy was tall and had long blonde hair in waves down her back. Her soft blue eyes made you want to stare at them forever, and she alway smelled like flowers. It was a rainy morning and a warm fog settled around her and she felt comfortable walking to school. She sat down at her desk and grabbed a piece of paper she wrote her name in scriptLucy then wrote the date August 7, 1888. This would be a date she would never forget. Ding Ding Ding! Lucy jumped out of her desk and saw her friend best friend Brit. Brit was a tall slender girl with black wavy hair that was always up in a ponytail. She always wore a little makeup on her olive colored skin. Her radiant smile would brighten Lucy’s day. Brit ran to Lucy and gave her a big hug like she hadn’t seen grace...
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...The case in this chapter is about a missing little girl who, for the sake of privacy, is given the false name Rosemarie Lynn Gilley. The forensic anthropologist on the case, H. Gill-King, started the chapter off by describing a "skull-to-photo superimposition." (Video superimposition technique). The process by which an image of the deceased individual's skull has an image of the suspected deceased subject superimposed over it to look for similarities and differences in facial features. For this practice to be used, the image of the child from when they were alive cannot be more than six months old from the time that they disappeared. This is protocol for cases involving deceased children as their facial features go through incredibly speedy changes. From the superimposed images, Gill-King described certain facial features of the missing girl as following" the outlines of the skull like an artist's tracing." He mentions several skeletal attributes such as the auditory meatus, nasal bridge, and maxilla in relation to their similar (identical?) positions on the girls fleshy face. He also observes the dental details from both images and further proves that the images are indeed from the same individual. One such dental detail being the 90˚ rotation of the left maxillary incisor which aligned perfectly in the superimposed images. For this case, two triangles were programmed into/on both of the images to further ensure that they were the same individual. "These triangles were defined...
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...The day was January 15, 1949 and I was the private detective on scene. I wasn’t hired but I find these murders entertaining. At first there were no suspects. My job was hard since there wasn’t anything like this before. I tried to link it to the Cleveland Torso Murders but I tossed that idea out since there were differences and the distance between them. I decided to take my investigation to the next level. Elizabeth Short was a call girl. She must have been on her way to a call when she was murdered. I hired a call girl to come to my house and once she was there I explained my plan. I was going to have her trace the last call that Ms. Short recieved and I was going to walk the same path dressed as a female to the call. If the murderer is...
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...MDP Paper: Black Dahlia Have you ever heard of The Black Dahlia? The story behind Black Dahlia is confusing, which is why many people don’t have a good understanding of it. This paper talks about how the early life of Black Dahlia, how she died, and the possible murderers. Elizabeth Short or also known as The Black Dahlia July 29, 1924, in Hyde Park, Massachusetts. Elizabeth was the third child out of five, born into Cleo and Phoebo. When Elizabeth was only six years old her father abandoned the family. In Elizabeth sophomore year of high school she dropped out and started working. At the young age of 16 Elizabeth was traveling around America, picking up jobs such as a waitress and working in food service. Elizabeth was also known for dating different men. Black Dahlia body was found at Leimert Park at January 15, 1947. ELizabeth body was found cut into two pieces with blood drained out of her and scratch marks found all over. Black Dahlia was missing a small patch of skin, which was later found out the murderer cut of her flower tattoo and put it inside her body. Along with missing patches of skin and bruising Elizabeth had a gash on her breast and on her mouth shaped up into a smile. “Elizabeth Short was no doubt...
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...Elizabeth Short always aspired to become a famous actress. As she turned 19 she moved in with her father who was living in California to pursue her dream of becoming an actress. Elizabeth Short was given the nickname "Black Dahlia" because she almost always dressed completely in black and her hair was jet black, her skin was very pale, and her nail polish and lipstick were very red.She moved with her father at age 19 but then in 1943 she left her father over an argument,and went to live in California working as a post exchanger. “Poor Betty... her problem wasn't too many enimies; it was too many friends.”-James Ellory said. At 1947 her body was found in the Crenshaw district of Los Angeles,CA. A mother called Betty Bersinger with her daughter were walking back home ,betty’s attention was caught when she saw what she thought was a manquin on the grass,but when she came closer to the body she realized its was not manquin but a young girl. “The body was just a few feet from the sidewalk and posed in the grass in such a way that the woman reportedly thought it was a mannequin at first,” – FBI She was lying on her back her arms above her head her body was covered with bruises and cuts. But that was not all her mouth had been slashed so that it...
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...Last week I experienced a chilling illustration of the phrase “No publicity is bad publicity”. I was reading about how David Nicholls, author of One Day, which, back in 2010, peppered many a British-holidaymaker-strewn poolside (making those poolsides deliciously seasoned with accessible fiction – it’s fine, I’m on top of this), and was subsequently made into a successful film starring that thin actress, you know the one. OK, I realise that hardly narrows down the options – they’re narrowed down by the demands and constraints of a body-image-obsessed patriarchy, which insists they have no dinner. But yes, there are lots of thin actresses. But this one’s really thin. Come on, you remember – she had that award-winning haircut in the miserable musical, same name as Shakespeare’s wife. Something to do with a cottage. I’d Google her if I had time. Anyway, she’s in it. I feel I’ve left a sentence open somewhere there – a dangling demi-clause (as when the Christmas float sped under the low bridge). Yes! That’s it: David Nicholls was explaining to the Cheltenham literature festival why there was such a long gap between One Day and his latest novel, Us. Which wasn’t that he refused to rush his new novel – it was that he didn’t. Refuse to, that is. He did rush it, is what I’m saying. What he specifically did was download a piece of software called Write or Die that requires you to bang the words out at a certain rate or it starts deleting them. Nicholls described it as like “writing...
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...Course Description This course introduces the concepts, tools, and first principles of strategy formulation and competitive analysis. It is concerned with managerial decisions and actions that materially affect the success and survival of business enterprises. The course focuses on the information, analyses, organizational processes, skills, and business judgment managers must use to design strategies, position their businesses and assets, and define firm boundaries, to maximize long-term profits in the face of uncertainty and competition. Strategic Management (BUAD 497) is an integrative and interdisciplinary course in two important respects: 1. The course assumes a broad view of the environment that includes competitors, buyers/consumers, suppliers, technology, economics, capital markets, and government both locally and globally. It assumes that the external environment is dynamic and characterized by uncertain changes. In studying strategy, this course draws together and builds on all the ideas, concepts, and theories from your functional courses such as Accounting, Economics, Finance, Marketing, Organizational Behavior, and Statistics. However, it is much more than a mere integration of the functional specialties within a firm. 2. The course takes a general management perspective. It views the firm as a whole, and examines how policies in each functional area are integrated into an overall competitive strategy. We designed this course to develop...
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...Agatha Christie - Third Girl CHAPTER ONE HERCULE POIROT was sitting at the breakfast table. At his right hand was a steaming cup of chocolate. He had always had a sweet tooth. To accompany the chocolate was a brioche. It went agreeably with chocolate. He nodded his approval. This was from the fourth shop he had tried. It was a Danish patisserie but infinitely superior to the so-called French one near by. That had been nothing less than a fraud. He was satisfied gastronomically. His stomach was at peace. His mind also was at peace, perhaps somewhat too much so. He had finished his Magnum Opus, an analysis of great writers of detective fiction. He had dared to speak scathingly of Edgar Alien Poe, he had complained of the lack of method or order in the romantic outpourings of Wilkie Collins, had lauded to the skies two American authors who were practically unknown, and had in various other ways given honour where honour was due and sternly withheld it where he considered it was not. He had seen the volume through the press, had looked upon the results and, apart from a really incredible number of printer's errors, pronounced that it was good. He had enjoyed this literary achievement and enjoyed the vast amount of reading he had had to do, had enjoyed snorting with disgust as he flung a book across the floor (though always remembering to rise, pick it up and dispose of it tidily in the waste-paper basket) and had enjoyed appreciatively nodding his head on the rare occasions when such...
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...FREAKONOMICS A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything Revised and Expanded Edition Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner CONTENTS AN EXPLANATORY NOTE In which the origins of this book are clarified. vii PREFACE TO THE REVISED AND EXPANDED EDITION xi 1 INTRODUCTION: The Hidden Side of Everything In which the book’s central idea is set forth: namely, if morality represents how people would like the world to work, then economics shows how it actually does work. Why the conventional wisdom is so often wrong . . . How “experts”— from criminologists to real-estate agents to political scientists—bend the facts . . . Why knowing what to measure, and how to measure it, is the key to understanding modern life . . . What is “freakonomics,” anyway? 1. What Do Schoolteachers and Sumo Wrestlers Have in Common? 15 In which we explore the beauty of incentives, as well as their dark side—cheating. Contents Who cheats? Just about everyone . . . How cheaters cheat, and how to catch them . . . Stories from an Israeli day-care center . . . The sudden disappearance of seven million American children . . . Cheating schoolteachers in Chicago . . . Why cheating to lose is worse than cheating to win . . . Could sumo wrestling, the national sport of Japan, be corrupt? . . . What the Bagel Man saw: mankind may be more honest than we think. 2. How Is the Ku Klux Klan Like a Group of Real-Estate Agents? 49 In which it is argued that nothing is more powerful than information,...
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...In Cold Blood Truman Capote I. The Last to See Them Alive The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call "out there." Some seventy miles east of the Colorado border, the countryside, with its hard blue skies and desert-clear air, has an atmosphere that is rather more Far West than Middle West. The local accent is barbed with a prairie twang, a ranch-hand nasalness, and the men, many of them, wear narrow frontier trousers, Stetsons, and high-heeled boots with pointed toes. The land is flat, and the views are awesomely extensive; horses, herds of cattle, a white cluster of grain elevators rising as gracefully as Greek temples are visible long before a traveler reaches them. Holcomb, too, can be seen from great distances. Not that there's much to see simply an aimless congregation of buildings divided in the center by the main-line tracks of the Santa Fe Rail-road, a haphazard hamlet bounded on the south by a brown stretch of the Arkansas (pronounced "Ar-kan-sas") River, on the north by a highway, Route 50, and on the east and west by prairie lands and wheat fields. After rain, or when snowfalls thaw, the streets, unnamed, unshaded, unpaved, turn from the thickest dust into the direst mud. At one end of the town stands a stark old stucco structure, the roof of which supports an electric sign - dance - but the dancing has ceased and the advertisement has been dark for several years. Nearby is another building...
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...In Cold Blood Truman Capote I. The Last to See Them Alive The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call "out there." Some seventy miles east of the Colorado border, the countryside, with its hard blue skies and desert-clear air, has an atmosphere that is rather more Far West than Middle West. The local accent is barbed with a prairie twang, a ranch-hand nasalness, and the men, many of them, wear narrow frontier trousers, Stetsons, and high-heeled boots with pointed toes. The land is flat, and the views are awesomely extensive; horses, herds of cattle, a white cluster of grain elevators rising as gracefully as Greek temples are visible long before a traveler reaches them. Holcomb, too, can be seen from great distances. Not that there's much to see simply an aimless congregation of buildings divided in the center by the main-line tracks of the Santa Fe Rail-road, a haphazard hamlet bounded on the south by a brown stretch of the Arkansas (pronounced "Ar-kan-sas") River, on the north by a highway, Route 50, and on the east and west by prairie lands and wheat fields. After rain, or when snowfalls thaw, the streets, unnamed, unshaded, unpaved, turn from the thickest dust into the direst mud. At one end of the town stands a stark old stucco structure, the roof of which supports an electric sign - dance - but the dancing has ceased and the advertisement has been dark for several years. Nearby is another building...
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