Introduction It was a hot 92 F summer morning. Doug Green, Anna Garcia’s neighbor/ex-boyfriend contacted the police, because he was worried about his next door neighbor, Anna Garcia. He had spoken to Anna the previous morning when he saw her walking her dog at 6:30 AM. It is usually a quiet suburban neighborhood. The emergency call came in at 9:45 AM. Anna Garcia was found dead in her home with her dog in her home at 9:56 AM. Anna was wearing a sweater during the heatwave. The call came in on 9:45 AM for noise complaints by her dog barking for 2 hours straight. As well Anna not answering the phone and her doorbell. The police and EMT found Anna lying face down in the entry hallway. It was 73 degrees in the house. The EMT determined Anna was dead. It is 10:20 AM on August 14th in Anytown, USA, the police searched the house and secured the scene. The manner of death has not yet been concluded, there are no witnesses. The police are temporarily reporting that it was a crime scene. The scene appears to be limited to the front entry hallway, “10x15” space. If Anna Garcia’s death has no signs of homicide, the her death can be ruled as an accident. Time of Death 9:56 am found dead/ police arrived 9:45 call put in 5:56 estimated time of death 93.4 = measured rectal temp 1.5 93.4 - 92.4 = 6 = 4 1.5 1.5 9.56 - …show more content…
4 = 5.56 AM Even though there is an estimated time of death, there is no certain time known about her death. At 9:45 AM Anna Garcia’s neighbor Doug Green called the police department to make a noise complaint and to check on Anna. She was not answering her phone or her door and her dog. was barking very loudly and for a very long time. At 9:56 the police arrived at the scene and found Anna dead in her home. Her body temperature was 92.4 degrees F so her death could not have been more than 5 hours ago. The estimated time of death for Anna was 5:56 AM because it was a very hot day outside so her body temperature would not have dropped very fast, also because her dog was barking for two hours which was concerning in the small, quiet, suburban neighborhood. The limitations of this is that even though there is an estimated time of death, there is no way to have know a certain time of death. The evidence can be inconsistent if the temperature of her house, clothing worn, her body size, and environmental factors such as temperature or humidity could slow down or quicken the process of her body temperature cooling. The equation used was called the Glaister equation, it is an equation which estimates time passed since death and the temperature of the body. Blood Spatter The blood spatter of Anna’s was located on the floor and there was a bloody handprint on the cup.
The type of blood spatter is a transfer stain. A transfer stain is when a wet bloody surface comes in contact with another surface. Limitations of blood spatter is that it is inconsistent in reconstructing the very same blood spatter pattern. Reconstructing the blood spatter pattern is trying to mimic or imitate the pattern of the blood spatter. Other inconsistencies would be results from different people in the group would not be the same because someone could have made a mistake which means the results could vary from person to
person. Vomit The vomit was found near her at the crime scene. The vomit contained carbohydrates, as well as lipids and proteins. The proteins were found when the vomit turned black when the iodine was added. The carbohydrates were found when the vomit turned orange when it was heated with the benedict's solution. The lipids were found when the paper with the dried vomit turned orange when the bureau's . The lipids, proteins, and carbohydrates are present in the vomit but that doesn't mean we know what food was consumed by Anna the night before. LImitations for testing the vomit for macromolecules is any of the food that she could have ate at her favorite places would all contain lipids, carbohydrates and proteins which is also an inconsistency because no matter what food you eat you could either be ingesting lipids, proteins or carbohydrates. . Persons of Interest Alex Garcia is the ex husband of Anna Garcia, Erica Piedmont is the new wife of Alex Garcia she is expecting a new baby. Lucy Leffingwell is the best friend and owner of Anna and her bakery, Doug Green is the ex boyfriend of Anna Garcia as well as her neighbor. Even though there is evidence on who are the suspects are. Everyone of these suspects had a reason to kill Anna. Alex Garcia is the ex husband of Anna Garcia, Erica Piedmont is the new wife of Alex Garcia as well as expecting a new baby. Lucy Leffingwell is the best friend and owner of Anna and her bakery, Doug Green is the ex boyfriend of Anna Garcia as well as her neighbor. Alex and his new wife were going through financial troubles and Alex was still on Anna’s life insurance plan. Lucy and Anna were arguing on whether or not expanded to a line of sugar free products to their bakery. Doug was still in love with Anna when she broke up with him. Even though there is evidence on who had been in contact with Anna. Inconsistencies are that all of the suspects except for Erica Piedmont have been in Anna’s home. The limitations are that Erica had avoided being in Anna’s house since she was parked outside. Police Report Both the police and the EMT arrived at the scene at 9:56 am. The front door had to be broken down by the police. Upon entering the house, they found Anna lying face down in the entry hallway. She was wearing a sweater in a 73 degree house during a heat wave. When she was found, she was found with her head in a pool of her own blood. With all the information found at the crime scene the actual cause of death for Anna may or may not be determined with this limited amount of evidence. DNA Most of persons of interest excluding Erica Piedmont were at one time in Anna’s house. Alex was discussing the divorce papers with Anna the night before she died. DNA analysis using an electrophoresis machine method concluded that the DNA of the blood belonged to Anna Garcia. An electrophoresis is the movement of charged particles in a fluid or gel under the influence of an electric field. The limitation is that their can be no evidence or can be covered up. Anna’s best friend, ex boyfriend and ex husband’s DNA would all be found in her house due to them knowing Anna personally. Conclusion: In conclusion it was determined that Anna Garcia’s death was an accident. Due to no sign of another person being in the house during the time of her murder. We accept our hypothesis and know that she died due to an accident. Not due to murder by anyone of the suspects. Most likely she fell over and hit her head on the corner of her table and bleeding out. Next Steps The analysis has taken us to the conclusion that Anna died in her own home due to an accident. No evidence of murder or attempted murder. The results of the autopsy test shows no signs of struggle or bruising anywhere on her body but shows slight trauma at the head. As well as her medical history showing that she is diabetic.
The blood, hair, and shoe print found at the crime scene were all Anna’s, making it very unlikely someone was there with her when she died. Also, at the scene there was no signs of struggle such as bloody handprints on furniture, or blood trails which would make it less likely to be a homicide. I believe Anna accidentally died by falling down and hitting her head on the table since the table was 41cm tall and had blood on it. The blood spatters on the floor were 10mm, which is the size they make when dropped from 40cm. Once Anna hit the floor, I believe she passed out due to the lack of blood and impact of hitting the floor, later dying of blood loss. I came to this conclusion because accidental is the most reasonable manner of death. There is no struggle, and almost all of the evidence was related to Anna. Also, the table being the cause of her death makes a lot of sense. There is blood on the table and the blood drops fell from the same height as the
Ladies and gentlemen of the Jury. I am here to represent Justin Garcia, to prove the negligence of Jessica Nordeen. The law of negligence says that negligence occurs if an individual does something harmful that a person of ordinary intelligence would not do. In the next few moments,I will prove to the Jury that there was a breach of duty in the case of Garcia v. Nordeen.
On the evening of Ms. Heggar¡¦s death she was alone in her house. Eddie Ray Branch, her grandson, testified that he visited his grandmother on the day that she was killed. He was there till at least 6:30 p.m. Lester Busby, her grandnephew, and David Hicks arrived while her grandson was still there and they saw him leave. They then went in to visit with Ms. Heggar. While they were there, Lester repaid Ms. Heggar 80 dollars, which he owed her. They left around 7:15 p.m. and went next door to a neighboring friend¡¦s house. David Hick¡¦s went home alone from there to get something but returned within ten minutes of leaving. Because he was only gone for 5-10 minutes, prosecution theorized TWO attacks on Ms. Heggar because he could not have killed his grandmother during this 5-10 minute period alone. At 7:30 p.m., 15 minutes after the two had left, an insurance salesman called to see Ms. Heggar. He knocked for about 2 or 3 minutes and got no reply. Her door was open but the screen door was closed. Her TV was on. He claimed to have left after about 5 minutes and then he returned the next morning. The circumstances were exactly the same. With concern, he went to the neighbor¡¦s house and called the police. His reasoning for being there was because the grandmother¡¦s family had taken out burial insurance three days before she had died.
At around eight thirty AM Queenie Trap, a rather small woman at five feet and six inches and one hundred and ten pounds, left her house after a fight with her husband Arthur Trap. Had she known this was the last time she would see him alive she wouldn’t have left, or maybe she already knew about his untimely demise. Queenie has her motive, her fights with her husband are more than enough, although Queenie is rather small she knew Arthur was drunk.The investigators should rule Arthur’s death as a murder because she had a motive, and although some would say that Queenie’s size means she couldn’t overpower him he was drunk, she also had ten minutes alone with the dead body of Arthur.
In order to reconstruct a crime scene, analysis must classify the bloodstain spatter, and there are many way to classify blood stain patterns: bloodstain spatter by velocity and bloodstain through taxonomy. In the classification of the bloodstain spatter by velocity, there are three basic categories of stain groups...
Even though the prosecution presented evidence to the court, the only clear-cut hard fact the prosecution had against Anthony was that she failed to file a report for her missing daughter Caylee and that when she finally did a month after her daughter had gone missing, she proceeded to lie profusely to the authorities on the events that took place. The prosecution focused highly on the forensic evidence of decay located in the trunk of Casey Anthony’s car. The use of a cadaver dog to search the vehicle led investigators to be able to determine that a decomposing body had been stored in the trunk of the car. The forensics department used an air sampling procedure on the trunk of Casey Anthony’s car, also indicating that human decomposition and traces of chloroform were in-fact present. Multiple witnesses described what they considered to be an overwhelming odor that came from inside the trunk as it where the prosecution believes Caylee’s decomposing body was stowed. Several items of evidence were ruled out to be the source of the odor, as experts were able to rule out the garbage bag and two chlorine containers located in the trunk as the source. The prosecution alleged that Casey Anthony used chloroform to subdue her daughter and then used duct-tape to seal the nose and mouth of Caylee shut, inevitably causing her to suffocate. Based off the
DSS received a report of physical abuse, physical neglect and substantial risk of physical abuse on March 3, 2017 alleging there is chaos in the home. After returning with his brothers from their cousin’s house, the boys had to go to bed. The reporter stated that Xzavia banged on his mother’s bedroom door on three separate occasions wanting something to eat. The first time he was told to go back to bed and a popping noise was heard. The second time Ms. Kimberly Dawkins grabbed Xzavia by the head, shook him little and told him to go back to bed. The third time Ms. Dawkins grabbed Xzavia, threw him on the bed, got a gun, held him down and pointed it at him. Reporter states there was no clip in the gun. Ms. Dawkins was reported being upset and it was reported that she left the home for twenty minutes but came back. It was reported that while Ms. Dawkins was gone, Xzavia was very upset and he was crying and Tyzhaun stared punching holes in the wall. It was reported that Xzavia says he wanted to die and that Atmorris went and got a knife, stated to Xzavia, “You want to die?”, here’s the knife and the two older brothers, Tyzhaun and Atmorris left the house and Xzavia chased them. It was reported that Xzavia was outside crying and he spent the night with the neighbor.
Her body had been bathed and thoroughly washed before being placed, it was also completely drained of blood [2]. Two detectives were assigned to the case: Harry Hanson and Finis Brown. When they and the police arrived at the crime scene, it was already swarming with people, gawkers and reporters. The entire situation was out of hand and crowded, everyone trampling all over in hopes of good evidence. One thing they did report finding was a nearby cement block with watery blood on it, tire tracks and a heel print on the ground.
When the first responder got to the scene he adimatately meet the 911 caller, who lead him to a car in an apartment parking lot. The car doors were closed and all of the windows were fogged. The police officer used his flashlight to see inside of the car before opening the door. He found a young African American woman who had been shot several times. The officers quickly called for backup, investigators and medical personnel. While awaiting for their arrival he secured the crime scene with caution tape, creating an initial perimeter setup as discussed in lecture two. Once everyone arrived he left it to them to search the car while he talked to the 911 caller, witnesses and others who had information on who had been present in the car. The investigators were able to collect physical evidence of bullets and cartage casings that were found outside the vehicle and inside the vehicle on the floorboard of the driver’s side. The team determined the bullets came from a 40 caliber. Other types of physical evidence that were found on the scene were the bloody clothing on the victim, the victim’s cell phone and fibers in the car from the driver’s side. personnel at the scene crime took several photographs, powered test for finger prints and did a blood spatter analysis. Stewart’s autopsy revealed that she had been shot at close range in the left hand once and in the
On 08/05/2016 at approximately 1:50 AM, this Investigator with Investigator V. Shroyer arrived at 12211 N. Paradise Village Parkway, Phoenix, AZ for Case # 537001 report of Child Neglect for victim Fiona McFadden (DOB: 03-05-2013) against her mother Monica Katich (DOB: 09-17-89). Upon arriving on the scene, this Investigator met with the report source, Phoenix Police Officer E. Gomez # 7977 in reference to Phoenix Police DR: 2016-00001441605. According to Officer Gomez, Phoenix Police received an emergency 911 call from Monica Katich that her friend later identified as Ashley Brook Post (DOB: 06-21-83) had overdosed on Heroin. Upon Officer Gomez arriving on the scene, Monica told Officers Gomez and Officer Cambell (#9021) that her friend Ashley
The medico-legal autopsy report should be as detailed as possible so as not to miss even the slightest of findings, which may later play a big role in determining the case, hence standardized autopsy procedures as well as autopsy protocols have been devised.
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The word “Autopsy” means ‘to see with one’s own eyes,’ (2) and is a procedure that has been performed since the time of (LOOK UP IN NOTES). Not every death that occurs is subjected to an autopsy – this would be time consuming and expensive. Yet the situations that require such a procedure are different for every state. In fact, there is no federal standard when it comes to autopsy requirements or procedures – a surprising fact, considering the sheer number of years the human race has been practicing the procedure.
Blood stains are one type of evidence that can be found at a crime scene. Blood that is still in the liquid form should be picked up on a gauze pad. Once the blood is dried thoroughly it should be refrigerated and sent to the Laboratory (Andrus et al., n.d., para. 1). If the blood stain is found dried on clothing, the officer should wrap the piece of clothing in clean paper and place it in a sealed and labeled container. An object with dried blood stains needs to be sent to the Laboratory if it is small enough. If the object is too large to send, then using a clean knife the stain needs to be scraped onto a clean piece of paper, which then can be folded and placed in an envelope (Andrus et al., n.d., para. 2). When collecting autopsy blood samples, the officer should request that the pathologist obtain the sample directly from the heart and place it in a yellow or purple stoppered vacutainer. If the victim is still alive but in serious need of a blood transfusion, then the pre-transfusion blood sample needs to be obtained promptly before the hospital discards it (Andrus et al., n.d., para. 4). It is important for the Laboratory to receive all blood samples within 48 ho...
The medico-legal autopsy report should be as detailed as possible so as not to miss even the slightest of findings, which may later play a big role in determining the case, hence standardized autopsy procedures as well as autopsy protocols have been devised.