Stages of crime scene Stage 1: Initial assessment A first attending officer (FAO) will arrive at the crime scene first, which is normally a police officer. The FAO will immediately isolate the scene away from the public by securing the scene with barrier tape. This is called cordoning - marking off boundaries, so that there is no contamination to the scene and evidence. The FAO will assess the scene to confirm whether a crime has taken place and if assistance is required. Any potential forensic evidence
location is referred to as the primary crime scene. The primary crime scene describes the importance of this location and the direct concern of responding police officials to this forensically critical area in death investigations. A homicide crime scene begins at the point where the suspect changed intention into action. It continues through the escape route and includes any location where physical or trace evidence may be located. The focus of a homicide crime scene investigation is to search for
On the 4th of September 2005, Robert Farquharson drove his vehicle off the Princes Highway near Winchelsea, Victoria, into an adjacent dam. As a result, Farquharson’s three sons, Jai, aged 10, Tyler, 7 and Bailey, 2, drowned at the scene (R v Farquharson, 2009). The prosecution case against Farquharson was that he deliberately drove into the dam and intended to murder his sons in an act of revenge against his ex-wife. The defence however, argued that the boys’ deaths were due to a tragic accident
Justice 2460-400 Kimberli Moravec On August 31st 1888 in the East end of London, England the first of five murder victims would be found over a three month period in Whitechapel a place that would soon be as notorious as the perpetrator of these crimes; the victims were found with their throats cut, several of the victims mutilated to varying degrees. These murders would be officially attributed to the killer, later known by the infamous moniker of ?Jack the Ripper?. All five victims were prostitutes