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Eagle Crime Scenes, Inc., has taken an innovative approach to providing crime scene training. Too many crime scene processing manuals are full of theory with very little practical application. When you're in the field at an actual crime scene, you don't need a book that tells you about all the different things that can be done on television; you need a manual that will guide you through the steps of processing the scene you're at right now. You need a manual that will tell you how to photograph your crime scene, how to document the evidence, how to collect measurements, how to process floors for footwear impressions, how to photograph fingerprints on difficult surfaces, how to use chemicals to brings up important evidence, and, most of all, how to put everything together into the finished product: a case ready to be presented in court.
With the print version of Crime Scene Processing: Basic Principles and Practices for the Successful Identification, Documentation, Processing and Collection of Physical Evidence at Crime Scenes, president of Eagle Crime Scenes, Inc., Michael F. LaForte gave you just that: a step-by-step, how-to guide for processing all types of crime scenes.
Now, Eagle Crime Scenes, Inc., brings you a multimedia, software version of this highly-successful crime scene processing manual that combines text with full-color photographs and videos that will take you through the steps of processing crime scenes right in the field! Simply insert the data DVD in your laptop computer and select the lesson you need to review. Can't remember how to apply amido black to a tile floor? Just select the video and you'll be shown all the steps you need to know to properly get the job done.
A student photographs a hand impression in blood at a mock crime scene during an Eagle Crime Scenes, Inc. photography class in Valdosta, GA. (Photo by Michael A. Knox)
Crime scene work requires us to learn from our past experiences and apply it to the present while anticipating the future.
- Michael F. LaForte, President
Eagle Crime Scenes, Inc.
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Crime Scene Processing v. 2.0 uses years of practical experience to provide you with a hands-on approach to crime scene training. (Click on the image for a larger view).
A fresh crime scene, especially a death scene, can be a very fluid, ever-changing environment that requires those processing the scene to be very flexible in their approach. A crime scene investigator can never afford the luxury of fixating on only one possibility or cause.
The importance of crime scene processing cannot be understated in any criminal investigation. The patrol officer initiates an investigation by writing the offense report, whether a simple battery, burglary or a homicide. If an arrest is made, it is based on probable cause.
The case investigator has the responsibility of solving the case and making the arrest. If the case is solved, it is most likely due to the physical evidence recovered by the crime scene investigator. Even if the suspect confesses, physical evidence is often still required to secure a conviction.
In most cases, the crime scene investigator must respond to a scene and
enter an environment he/she has never been to before, and within a short
period of time he/she must understand what has occurred. The
investigator, based on human nature and individual experiences, must
recognize the movements a suspect might have taken.
Physical evidence must be located legally, documented fully and
collected properly. The crime scene investigator has no room for error
when processing a crime scene.
It is only through continued training and attention to detail that the
crime scene investigator will be successful in the pursuit of justice.
A crime scene, especially a major crime scene, can be a very daunting
environment. Crime scene processing can also be disheartening because
the results are not tangible. The results of hours and sometimes days of
hard work are quite often not immediately known, leaving one to wonder
whether his/her work was of any consequence.
Years might pass before a fingerprint recovered at a crime scene is
identified to a suspect. One reason might be the person that left the
print did not have an arrest record. On occasion, the State decides not
to prosecute a suspect because they do not feel the case is strong
enough, even though you collected all of the necessary evidence.
There will always be circumstances over which the crime scene
investigator has no control. What can be controlled are the actions at
the crime scene and the processes that are used. The crime scene
investigator must be concerned with processing every scene for any and
all evidence, finding it legally and collecting it properly. Then, if
and when the case makes it to trial, the crime scene investigator will
be prepared.
There might be times when you are being hurried through a scene either
by the other investigators or immediate superiors for one reason or
another. Remember that you are the one that will eventually have to
testify to the processes that were used or were not used and to the
evidence that was collected or was not collected. You will not be able
to say you were rushed or hurried by someone else. You will be left all
alone up on the witness stand to take the heat. Crime scene processing
all begins with the proper attitude and preparation. There are no
shortcuts.
Crime Scene Processing v. 2.0 uses an intuitive, user-friendly interface that is designed like a website so that it is simple to use. (Click on the image for a larger view).
Finally,
a book written by someone with years of field experience who can
transfer that knowledge into a straightforward text. Your case studies
in the back of the book were very interesting and insightful.
Det. Mark S. Fields
Charlottesville Police Dept.
Forensics Unit
CRIME SCENE PROCESSING, VERSION 2.0
PROGRAM LESSONS CONTAINED ON ONE DVD:
Lesson #1 The Constitution and You
Lesson #2 ....Responding To the Crime Scene
Lesson #3 ....Prepared To Process
Lesson #4 ....The Crime Scene
Lesson #5 ....Crime Scene Search
Lesson #6 ....Processing the Crime Scene
Lesson #7 ....Digital and Film SLR Cameras
Lesson #8 ....Photographing the Crime Scene
Lesson #9 ....Photographing Impression Evidence
Lesson #10 ..Specialty Photography
Lesson #11 ..Diagramming
Lesson #12 ..Evidence
Lesson #13 ..DNA Evidence
Lesson #14 ..Fingerprints
Lesson #15 ..Chemicals
Lesson #16 ..Firearms and Ballistics
Lesson #17 ..Surface Skeletons, Buried Bodies and Entomology
Lesson #18 ..Alternate Light Sources
Lesson #19 ..Narrative Construction
Lesson #20 ..Courtroom Testimony
Lesson #21 ..Case Histories
Lesson #22 ..Crime Scene Scenarios
Lesson #23 ..Crime Scene Reconstruction
Features Include:
- 700+ color photographs
- 70 page crime scene checklist
- Bloodstain pattern calculator
- Bullet trajectory calculator
- Bones of the skeleton (including high-quality photographs)
- Over 120 short video segments covering all aspects of crime scene processing
This program is intended to be taken into the field and used as an on-scene reference guide to walk you step-by-step through each and every crime scene you encounter.
Here's one of the videos on YouTube: