You are a forensic detective and you have been assigned to investigate the scene of a crime whether it is a simple burglary, bank robbery or homicide. Through this series of podcasts, retired Detective Sergeant Brian Ward will take you through the theories and techniques used to properly investigate a crime scene. It is intended for fans of forensics and crime writers. I will take you through fingerprints, trace evidence, examining your scene, evidence collection and other techniques that wi ...
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True crime stories investigated one at a time. Crime Scene takes in-depth looks at murders, both solved and unsolved, and the process of investigating, litigating and living life after those crimes.
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Death Investigations-part 3
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Send us a Text Message. The body has arrived at the morgue and you are waiting for the forensic pathologist (doctor who specializes in post mortem examinations ) to determine when their examination will begin. The procedure is to fingerprint the body if they are unidentified, present your scene photos to the forensic pathologist so they can begin a…
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Death Investigation-Part 2
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Send us a Text Message. You have a call about a dead woman in her bed, bloodied and battered in what could be a homicide/sexual assault. Remembering this could be an extremely important piece of evidence that could lead your investigators to the identity of the suspect, how you handle your investigation can make or break the case. Remember continui…
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Send us a Text Message. --------------------OUR DAY BEGINS WHEN YOUR DAY ENDS---------------- Rumour has it that this is the motto of a U.S medical examiner's office and just about says it all! This episode explains the science of death, how a forensic examiner is able to collect evidence from your greatest piece of evidence..............the body. …
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Analyzing your evidence part 2
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Send us a Text Message. This episode discusses other types of physical evidence such as footprints, tool marks and prints on paper. I also touch on your physical appearance when in court. Please stay away from the 1970 disco era look. Have some good business suits or jackets, ties and shirts. Women should try for the same effect of professional dre…
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Analyzing your evidence
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Send us a Text Message. Now you have collected all your evidence, time to process it for the bad guy's presence at the scene. I talk about a resource for you to look at and see the tools of the forensic examiner's tool box thanks to Bobby Dameron of Tri-Tech Forensics. He is an old friend and allowed me to mention their web site. By the way, he is …
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Evidence packaging and storage
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode we will deal with the handling of your evidence once it leaves the crime scene but remains in your custody. Blood, semen, hair and other goodies are now your evidence to look after. You could even inherit a scorpion tattoo from a dead biker!Von Brian Ward
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Crime scene evidence, collecting and preserving
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Send us a Text Message. This podcast will be a two part series on evidence. I will delve into types of evidence and in the second part, will talk about processing and packaging evidence.Von Brian Ward
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Crime Scene Management Part 2
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Send us a Text Message. This is a further podcast delving into the proper management of crime scenes by police officers and forensic investigators in particular. Just remember, if they cross the yellow tape, all you can do is yell at them !!!
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Managing the Crime Scene
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Send us a Text Message. How do you manage a crime scene and prevent it being contaminated? In the first few minutes of a serious outdoor crime scene, the area will be flooded by gawkers clamouring to see the gory site. They will have cell phone cameras to record everything and attending officers will have their hands full with people trampling evid…
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Send us a Text Message. Of the billions of people on earth, no one has the same fingerprints, not even identical twins. But fingerprint experts have identified there are only eight different types of patterns. WHOA !!!!!! What's going on here? As we shall see in this episode, it all begins to make sense as we delve into the minute world of the best…
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Introduction to Forensic Techniques
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Send us a Text Message. Twenty years of my 32 year career in policing was spent in the Toronto Police Service Forensic Identification Service where I investigated crimes ranging from burglaries to sex crimes and murder. I was always struck by the portrayal of forensic investigators on crime TV shows. They were glamorous officers who could solve sev…
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Scanner traffic on the day of two-year-old Gabriella's death reveals how police responded to the initial call, finding the toddler unresponsive and dealing with threats against their lives. Listen in on the latest Crime Scene podcast, with host and reporter Jordan Fenster.Von Jordan Fenster
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5 top criminal justice misconceptions
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Movies and television shows have been lying to us about criminal justice. Historical criminologist Fritz Umbach details the five top criminal justice misconceptions. From drugs to court to jail, there's a lot we think we know, that we actually don't. Listen to the latest Crime Scene podcast, written, hosted and edited by Jordan Fenster, to learn mo…
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The mass murder and animal cruelty connection
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The connection between animal cruelty and murder is now a commonly accepted fact. The FBI began tracking animal cruelty cases in 2016, but that might never had happened if not for one tiny dog, a shih tzu named Polo, and his devoted, doting owner.Von Jordan Fenster
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Paying the price of police work
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What is the cost of a life spent in law enforcement? Not the salary and benefits, but the physical and mental toll being a cop takes on members of the force. That question is harder to answer than you might think. suicide and PTSD rates are difficult if not impossible to track, but one academic has spent decades looking at the relationships between…
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Brothers in trauma: Police officers and PTSD
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Three cops, all friends, and all survivors of devastating injuries. But it's not the physical pain but the emotional challenges they have to overcome. On this episode of Crime Scene we talk to three former police officers, all of whom have dealt with on-the-job injury and life after the force.Von Jordan Fenster
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The case of the cannibal school teacher
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In 1979, Albert Fentress abducted, abused, mutilated, murdered and then ate parts of an 18-year-old boy. But before he did all that he wrote a movie script. In the latest episode of Crime Scene, we look at how fantasy becomes murder, through the lens of a cannibal middle school teacher.Von Jordan Fenster
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A quick update on last week's episode - I asked developmental psychologist Sasha Reid to talk a bit about why there are so few female serial killers, at least when compared to the number of men. She gives us her professional opinion.Von Jordan Fenster
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Recipe for a serial killer
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Could you create a serial killer? Or, perhaps more importantly, could you "fix" a potential serial killer before he becomes the monster? In this episode of Crime Scene, Sasha Reid, an etiologist examining the details of serial killers' lives, attempts to share the recipe for a serial killer, the bits and pieces that go into making the monsters we f…
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In this short update, we hear how former NYPD homicide detective Jim Davis got Sunset Bay Jr. to confess to the rape and murder of Roberta Fort. If you'd like to read the transcript, sign up for the Crime Scene newsletter at lohud.us/crimescene or head over to lohud.com and search for the word "transcript."…
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The rape and murder of Roberta Fort
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In 1975, the body of Roberta Fort was found in a pool of blood. Follow along with the original lead detective on the case as he walks through the investigatory process. These were the days before DNA. Seven years later, the killer went to trial. This is Crime Scene, the award-winning true crime podcast.…
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We want to believe that all murders are created equal. We'd like to think that, in 2017, the response to one tragedy will be the same as the response to another, regardless of race, creed or economic status. But the truth, according to Dr. Delores Jones-Brown at least, is that our society values some victims more than others, and treats perpetrator…
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The typical serial killer: How preconceived ideas let murderers go free
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In the latest episode of Crime Scene, we try to untangle preconceived ideas around serial murder, using the science of statistics to delve into the hard data. This episode we talk with former professor Mike Aamodt and with Vernon Geberth, a former lieutenant commander and commanding officer of Bronx homicide with the NYPD. He’s now a consulting cri…
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Inside the mind of sexual serial killers
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Police still don't know the identity of Robert Shulman's second victim, found mutilated behind a Yonkers pizza place 25 years ago. In this episode, Crime Scene talks with veteran homicide detective Vernon Geberth, called "Mr. Murder," about how sexual serial killers like Shulman operate, and with Det. John Geiss, whose job it is to identify the wom…
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Belton Lee Brims and the cinema of prison escape
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The story of how Belton Lee Brims murdered two people is how this story begins. His capture — and later re-capture — has become the stuff of local lore.Von Jordan Fenster
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State Police have released the 1987 transcript of a call to authorities in New Mexico detailing the location of a dead body on Interstate 95. This is an update to a recent episode of the Crime Scene podcast examined a case in which less than nothing is known, not even the victim's gender.Von Jordan Fenster
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