Application of multidisciplinary
approaches to a simulated crime scene
Hester Miles
Helen Brayley
Tim Nissen
Hester.Miles.09@ucl.ac.uk
Helen.Brayley.09@ucl.ac.uk
Tim.Nissen.09@ucl.ac.uk
Sunday 6th December 2009
04:37 GMT:- White male found dead in
the City of London.
Body site:- Whittington Avenue, EC3. A
small side street close to Leadenhall
market.
No CCTV coverage of Whittington
Avenue.
Extensive pooling of blood around body.
Probable cause of death not obvious from
initial observations
Forensic analysis:- Body Site
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No CCTV
Absence of weapon
Extensive pooling of
blood around body
Blood spatter patterns
evident (A)
Transfer patterning
North of body (B)
Drip patterning South
of body (C)
Forensic analysis:- Surrounding Area
• Blood spatter
analysis
– Primary impact
spatter pattern at
attack site
• Blood spatter analysis
- Primary impact spatter pattern
on discarded jacket and shoes
found in a neighbouring street
‘Forensiometrics’ - uncovering motivation
and probable weapon
Motivations
• Type
– Opportunistic
– Premeditated
– Crime of passion
• Found in forensics
– Type of weapon
• Our crime scene
Personal data storage
• Clues
– who they were
– Where were they going
– Languages they speak
• Is it still at the scene?
– Robbery?
– Interested in the data
• Damage
– Atomic spectrometer
Profiling
• Physical
– Gender
– Height
– Age
• Psychological
– Type of job
– Friends
• Geospatial
– Where the offence
took place
• Pitfalls
– Only a tool
Using The Law To
Help Solve Crimes
(helping or hindering?)
What is the effect of
refusing to give today’s 24hour media networks any
details to report when you
have a highly visible,
highly graphic crime?
Bloody
Body
Baffles
Bobbies
MURDER
RATES
SOAR
UNDER
LABOUR
Katie Price asks “why don’t people
love me?” (interview
continues page 3)
UNIDENTIFIED
BODY (but probably
DEAD
an illegal
immigrant Muslim terrorist, indicative of our
government’s
anti-British
open-door
immigration policy and ‘soft on crime’
approach to rapists and child killers)
FOUND – NO ARRESTS
MADE
The Solutions !
The Solutions ?