In the AUL CSI teams case #46787-35 where Charles Drummer A.K.A snake a local gang ring leader’s body exactly 35.38 ft. from an open window on the 35th floor of a high rise building which we measured was 320 ft. from the ground. The only lead we had was a supposed witness phone call somewhere in the area about a person jumping from a building. We knew the location of the cell phone tower that received the call, the time of the call, that the distance between the cell phone tower to the satellite, which is directly above the cell phone tower and are at the same angle from one another, is 77,975 ft., and that the distance between the cell phone and the satellite was 78,000 ft.. With this information we needed to find out if this was a suicide or a homicide?
The first thing we wanted to figure out was if he walked of the build by his own free will or did someone force him out of the window? To get this answer we would need to find out the distance that the victim feel, and we had already gotten this from the officers and the time it took him to reach the ground. To do this we put the information that we got from the police which was, that the victim was 35.38 feet from an open window on the 35th floor, on a 320 ft. high rise building into the falling time formula t=h16. So what we did next was insert the numbers in the proper place, so we replaced 320 with h because it is the height in this situation so we ended up with the equation t=32016 solved it and got t= 4.472. We used another equation to find the velocity so we could find out the rate he would fall, and find out where he would land which was v= dt. Next we inserted the solutions of the last equation and this one into the proper places and got the new equation was v= 35.384.472 with the solution as 7.91 ft. /s, his horizontal speed he left the building.
The next thing we did was triangulate the call from the supposed witness that the officers had gotten. To figure this out we wrote all of the information that we were given about the cell phone tower, satellite, and the call itself. This information was that the distance between the cell phone call and the satellite was 78,000 ft., the distance between the cell phone tower and the satellite which is directly above it is 77,975 ft., and the cell phone call and the satellite are at the same angle from one another. We had put all of this in formation in a right triangle, the satellite would be on the top left corner, the tower in the bottom left corner with 77,975 ft. between them on the side, on the bottom right the place where the cell phone call was with nothing between them because, we had not solved for it yet, and 78,000 ft. between the satellite and the where the cell phone call would be. Next we had to find out the missing side length so, we decided to use the Pythagorean Theorem which is a2+b2=c2, but came to a problem because we already knew what our c and b were and were looking for a. So we re-wrote the equation to c2-b2=a2 to solve for a. Now that we had gotten our equation we substituted in our numbers in to it and got the equation 78,0002-77,9752= a2 solved this and got a2=3899375. Next we had to find what a= so we did 3899375 and got the solution a=1974.683, which meant the call had been made 1974.683 ft. from the cell phone tower. With this new information we used the information on a map where the ganglands headquarters, cell phone tower, and supposed witness call are, and used the centimeter side of the ruler to triangulate where the call was supposedly made from on the map and it was too far from what we triangulated the call to actually be, and turned out that ganglands headquarters distance to the tower was as far as we triangulated distance between the call to the towers distance 1974.683 ft..
With all of this information we came to the conclusion that it was a homicide. We came to this conclusion because of how when we found out the velocity of the victims body leaving the building was 7.91 ft./s which is too fast for an average person to walk off of it which is 4.6 ft./, which means that the victim was pushed or forced out. Also that where the supposed witness call was too far for where we had triangulated it to be from the phone tower , but instead is the same distance as the ganglands headquarters from the phone tower. This tells me that someone from the victim’s gang called, which means that they knew that it was going to happen and had probably set it up and tried to cover their track and make it look like a suicide.