We’ve previously found a dead body, now we need to keep in pretty close contact with the family of the victim. This takes a lot of time and instead of having a stream of different officers turning up at the door asking questions as and when needed, forces now have what are called family liaison […]
5 Unusual Places To Find A Dead Body
We’re all used to our dead bodies, in crime fiction, being easily found, in the street, or a home, or somewhere equally simple to start off the investigation. But truth can often be much stranger than fact and bodies aren’t always left in easy to find places. We have discussed how you could possibly dispose […]
What’s Your Poison?
When I was writing Made to be Broken I had to decide on a poison for my choice of murder weapon, so bought a comprehensive book of poisons and let me tell you, there were plenty to choose from. To kill by poison you can decide on how much you want the intended victim to […]
Back To Basics – The Police Rank Structure
As I was sat around last night, trying to figure out what Policing topic I was going to cover, I realised that we were leaping ahead in some of our posts. I had wanted to try and work my way from the beginning of a crime scene to the end of a case, but with […]
Writing Crime – Using Dental Records For Identification
This post follows on from last week’s Writing Crime post about Identifying the Victim as Cleopatralovesbooks asked in the comments for further information on the process involved in the dental ID. I have a question about the dental records – we are often told in the media these are used but how […]
Writing Crime – Identifying The Victim
Back in February, after the crime scene, (discussed HERE, HERE and HERE) where we had found our murdered victim, we had a post-mortem, (discussed HERE) but we hadn’t yet identified our victim. So, we’re going to look at identifying the victim, where this isn’t a straight-forward thing to do. You may go into a situation where […]
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