Descriptive Essay: A Case Study Of A Crime Scene

Simultaneously, there is blood being drawn from the inguinal canal, heart and any organ that blood can be pulled from for toxicology and biological reasons. The medical examiner also cuts a piece of each organ and places them in a small container; the other pieces of the organs are placed in large, clear plastic bag. After all the organs are pulled from the main body cavity, the head is next. The medical assistant scalps the hair and pulls back the scalp, there is a drill used to open the head if needed. In this case, the victim’s skull was fairly cracked and fell apart revealing the brain. The brain is taken out and cut as well like the other organs and bullets are taken out of the skull and photograph with measurements. The final steps, is …show more content…
Kat and I drove to the scene separate from Angelica (AJ: CSI) to Magnolia. When we arrived at the scene which took over an hour to get to, media was already present along with curious neighbors. Kat and I waited outside the house of the victims as we got there before AJ. The crime scene process is simple but complicated. We are given shoe covers and gloves to wear throughout the entire crime scene process. First, overall photographs are taken of the exterior of the house and street along with street signs. Photographs are taken from the outside towards the inside of the house. Once inside the home, more photographs are taken of the overall interior of home. The scene is sketched on graph paper along with a compass showing the direction of the …show more content…
The male victim was on the floor in the living room. There was a note on the floor next to the female. Surprisingly, the smell of the dead bodies was not horrible as the decomposed bodies were in a temperature controlled room. More pictures are taken of the scene including more close-up photographs of the victims. After the evidence is collected, the placards are picked up. A final run through of the scene is conducted along with the detectives to ensure all evidence and photographs needed have be taken care of. The crime scene investigator and detectives release the bodies to the funeral home. For chain of custody purposes, the bodies have a body tag and which I wrote in the notes the identification numbers of the tags for each victim as well as the times the tags were placed. The funeral homes take the bodies away and the scene is released back to the family and or owners of the home. The scene took a total of four hours to process. The autopsy of the couple was similar to the one of the previous couple, most autopsy are the same in my opinion. There was another autopsy the following week involving a male shooting himself in the