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Crime Scene Investigation: DR/ Marwa Magdy

This document discusses crime scene investigation and provides information on key aspects of the process. It begins by outlining the objectives and vocabulary used in CSI. It then discusses the principles of CSI, including the importance of timely response, defining crime scene boundaries, and utilizing an investigation team. The stages of CSI are described as securing the scene, searching through documented patterns, documenting findings through photos and sketches, and collecting/preserving trace evidence like blood, hair, fingerprints and more. Overall, the document provides a high-level overview of crime scene investigation procedures and the types of evidence collected.

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Crime Scene Investigation: DR/ Marwa Magdy

This document discusses crime scene investigation and provides information on key aspects of the process. It begins by outlining the objectives and vocabulary used in CSI. It then discusses the principles of CSI, including the importance of timely response, defining crime scene boundaries, and utilizing an investigation team. The stages of CSI are described as securing the scene, searching through documented patterns, documenting findings through photos and sketches, and collecting/preserving trace evidence like blood, hair, fingerprints and more. Overall, the document provides a high-level overview of crime scene investigation procedures and the types of evidence collected.

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Crime Scene Investigation

CSI

By: Dr/ Marwa Magdy


Demonstrator of forensic medicine
& toxicology
Expectations
Objectives

• Vocabulary
• principles of crime scene investigation
• Stages of CSI
 Securing
 Searching
 Documenting
 Collecting & preserving trace evidence
Vocabulary
Crime scene: Any physical location in which a crime or accident has
occurred suspected of having occurred.

Physical evidence: any material items that would be present at the


crime scene, on the victim, or found in a suspect’s possession.

Trace evidence: physical evidence present at the crime scene in small


but measurable amounts.

Suspect: person thought to be capable of comitting a crime.

Source: http://www3.sc.maricopa.edu/ajs/crime_scene_technician.htm
Principles of CSI
1) Time frame
2) Crime scene zone
3) Crime scene investigation team
4) Crime scene investigation equipment
5) Crime scene search patterns

Source: http://www3.sc.maricopa.edu/ajs/crime_scene_technician.htm
Time frame
• Arrival of the CSI team should be as soon as
possible since the crime was reported.

• Late arrival at the crime scene may result in


loosing important evidence.
Crime scene zone
• Boundaries of the crime scene → as far as
signs of committing a crime are visible.

 Boundaries are defined by the head of the


CSI team.

• Assailant’s path of entry andexit


e.g: windows,doors.
CSI Team

• Head of the crime scene investiagtion team


“prosecutor” .‫وكيل النيابة‬
• Forensic pathologist ‫الطبيب الشرعى‬
• police officer (investigator)‫المحقق‬
• Photographer‫المصور الجنائى‬
• Latent prints expert‫خبير البصمات‬
• Explosives expert ‫خبير المفرقعات‬
• Members of CSI team‫أعضاء فريق البحث الجنائى‬
CSI equipments
• equipment for securing and preserving the crime
scene
• equipment for collecting and packaging of evidence

• equipment for recording the crime scene and


evidence.
Tools for evidence collection
• Rubber gloves.
• Strong flashlight.
• Syringes & needles.
• Forceps & scissors .
• Hand lens.
• Labels & containers.
• Plastic vials & jars.
• Paper bags.
Searching the crime scene
Stages of CSI

1. Securing the crime scene


2. Searching the crime scene
3. Documenting & photographing
4. Collecting & preserving evidence
Securing the scene
• Defining boundaries of the crime scene

• Entry is prohibited

• Every person who enters the crime scene


has the potential to destroy physical
evidence.
CSI video 2.flv
• Ensuring security for the crime scene
investigation team members
• CSI team should wear protective clothes.
Searching the scene
Crime scene search patterns
• Many distinctive methods of searching the
crime scene.

• For different types of crimes, different search


patterns are suggested.
Searching the crime scene
Documenting the scene
• 3 methods of crime-scene recording:

• Photography
• Sketches
• Notes

• Ideally all 3 should be used.


Photography
• At this stage touching or moving objects is
prohibitted

• Particularly cadavers SHOULD remain untouched

• Objects may be marked with numbers and


photographed
• what ?
Crime scene & adjacent areas
Entry & exit
Cadaver , weapon & injuries
Pictures can tell …
sketches
Collecting & preserving evidence
• Common types of trace
evidence
 Glass
Blood
 Impressions
Semen
 Paint
Saliva  Petroleum products
Fingerprints  Plastic bags
Hairs  Powder residue
Fibers  Soil and minerals
Explosives  Tool marks
Weapons  Wood
Why is trace evidence useful?
Blood stain

Finding The Stains:

Reagents :“Luminol and


fluorescein” can reveal blood
that has been watered down to a
ratio of 12000:1.
Seminal stain
• Seminal stains on dark material
often have a white glistening
appearance.

• Preliminary test (Ultraviolet light):


bluish white fluorescence.

• Confirmatory test (Microscopic


detection of spermatozoa)

• DNA of assailant
Saliva stains
• Could be detected anywhere on
clothing,bites,enveloppe& cigarette bits.

• DNA of the assailant


Hair
 Human or animal
 Race
 Origin
 Manner in which hair was
removed
 Drugs ingested
 DNA analysis
Latent prints
• Types :
 Fingerprint
 Palm
 Sole
 Lip
 Ear
 Foot
 tyre
Latent prints

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