Inside the Tape: Crime Scene Management-Rockford

COURSE CONTENT: This three-day death investigation course instructs & consults members of law enforcement at each level in the successful investigation and prosecution of violent offenders. Those who attend will learn to develop successful crime scene strategies that will afford them the best opportunity to properly document a violent crime scene and have analyzed the very probative evidence that will eventually lead them down that path of truth. Concentration is on the crime scene and the ability for the homicide detective to recognize various crime scene indicators coupled with victimology that will make it much easier to establish a proper motive.

Successful prosecution always begins at the initial crime scene. The recognition of physical evidence and its documentation, collection and analysis are key to an accurate and reliable reconstruction. This course also teaches and stresses the importance of proper crime scene protocol that will ensure the thorough process and documentation of any homicide scene, which often is followed by arrest of the offender and successful prosecution.

This course qualifies for 24 hrs. of Lead Homicide Training

Course Objectives:

• Provide an understanding of crime scene management and control - to include personnel responsibilities and duties

• Injury recognition and establishing time of death.

• Increase knowledge of evidence recognition, documentation and recovery

• Recognizing crime scene indicators and contaminants

• Grain an understanding of equivocal death

• Recognition of bloodstain patterns

• Recognize SIDS deaths vs. potential infant homicide

• Instilling confidence in those who are tasked with investigating the ultimate crime

• The overall objective of this training course is simply to stress that there is a proper way to approach and document the homicide or suspicious death crime scene. Proper documentation also allows the investigator to identify and use all five categories of evidence to aid in scene reconstruction. There is no doubt that this course will have a great influence over those who attend on how they approach future death investigations and will help to establish the proper foundation by which every suspicious death scene should be approached.

TOPICS COVERED

• Development of Standard Operating Procedures Regarding the Suspicious Death Scene

• Defining and Explaining the Various Levels of Association that Exist Between the
  Homicide Victim and Offender (Pyramid of Association) (Solvability Factors)

• Initial Scene Responsibilities Covering Boundaries, Canvassing & Immediate Leads

• Proper Crime Scene Protocol as it Relates to Death Investigation & Homicide

• Cold Case Investigation Strategies & Review of Solvability Factors (Case Objectives)

• Cold Case Reviews

• Analysis of the 911 Call & Case Reviews

• Sources of Crime Scene Contamination & Prevention (Assessment Accountability)

• Categories of Circumstantial Evidence and Recognition of Contamination

• Victimology and Immediate Lead Indicators

• Medical-Legal Death Investigation (Victim I.D. / Time of Death / Injury Recognition)

• Primary & Secondary Crime Scenes (Proper Definition)

• Crime Scene Sequence Event Determination – Model Employing Scientific Method

• Crime Scene Evaluation (Execution of the Walk-thru)

• Crime Scene Indicators Related to Motive, Manner of Death & Method of Operation

• DNA Review and Touch Evidence

• Specific Types of Crime Scenes & Related Forensic Disciplines

• Case Review (To Change Each Course)

• Suicide and Equivocal Death Scene Investigation – Analysis of Equivocal Death

• SIDS Review and Infant Homicide Scene