Real Murder Investigation (ePub)

Real Murder Investigation examines true to life aspects of police homicide investigation. Instructional strategies include the use of over 150 actual cases to establish points which both helped and hindered murder investigations. This book also examines:

• Complete and thorough victim background investigations using the Personal Profile Guide, not only for present investigative goals but for future prosecutorial and cold case considerations.
• Techniques utilized to break down the barriers of witness untruthfulness and methods of improving and enhancing witness credibility through the use of the Guidelines to Determine Witness Credibility.
• How to attain murder confessions when the criminal actors know it will take away their freedom-or their life.
• The reasons a homicide investigator should look at a crime scene from a different perspective than evidence technicians.
• Whether different motives for murder require differences in the investigative approach.
• How to develop a cold case effort tailored to the size and resources of an individual agency.
• Attributes that make up an accomplished cold case investigator. They may surprise you.
• How the study of cold cases can assist in your approach to current investigations.
• That a review of over 100 cold cases solved since 1999 revealed that DNA was only a small factor in leading to successful arrests and prosecutions. What was the #1 reason?
• How serial murders may not be immediately recognizable and are more common than you might think.
• The coordination of goals between law enforcement and the news media during both high profile and routine street investigations.
• Success during trial testimony using the components of murder investigation explored in this book.
• Over 80 relevant U.S. Supreme Court and federal appeals court cases, many of which work to the advantage of law enforcement.