Fundamentals Of Crime Investigation

Reconstructing The Crime Scene

By: Grup VII

Subsequent to the search of the crime scene, an effort should be made to determine from the appearance of the place and its object what actually occurred.
Particularly, What were the movements of the criminal? This constitutes part of the modus operandi? The Process of ascertaining the circumstances of the crime is known as reconstructing the crime. It may include a physical reproduction of the positions of articles and person during the occurrence. From a study of the evidence in this manner, useful inferences may be made and synthesized into a reasonable theory

If possible, the investigator should reconstruct the description of witnesses and the indication of physical evidence. If the lighting and weather conditions are relevant, the reconstruction should be accomplishment at the same time of day and under comparable weather conditions. The witnesses shoulder be requested to reenact their movements while other persons assume the positions of the participants.

From the reenactment of the occurrence and the reconstruction of arrangement of the physical objects, some conclusions can now be made concerning the consistency of the account of the various witnesses. In reconstructing the action of the criminals, the investigator should test his theory for logic consistency. A theory would not be rejected merely because of the investigator might not may under the circumstances behave in a similar manner.