Inside the Tape Cold Case & Unresolved Homicide Investigation
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Homicide
· Investigations
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- How often is Inside the Tape Cold Case & Unresolved Homicide Investigation scheduled?
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Course Description
COURSE TOPICS ARE TO INCLUDE:
* Discuss current crime rates and clearance rates as they apply to homicides in the United States.
*Significance of UCR reporting and the use of demographics to develop crime patterns and the allocation of resources.
*Define and discuss unresolved homicide investigation by categories of cold case, inactive homicide and exceptional scenarios.
*Organization of the case file by chronological occurrence.
*Evaluation of the geographic profile around the murder scene and the use of VICAP to identify similar indicators between offenses.
*Review and discuss the 6 factors of risk-assessment and behavioral analysis of victimology.
*Using the scientific method to identify variables in a case review to develop new theory regarding motive and method of operation.
*The significance of applying indicators when reviewing crime scene photographs to establish a likely association between the victim and offender.
*Case reviews will be discussed each day using different victimology scenarios.
*Identifying causal factors that result in homicide cases not being resolved.
*Establishing a point value computer-based tracking system to manage multiple unsolved cases.
*Importance of working with the coroner, medical examiner and prosecutor’s office.
*Updated forensic procedures to recover trace DNA from challenging substrates.
*Discuss the use of CODIS, databases, genetic genealogy and familial DNA searching to identify relatives of an unknown DNA profile.
* Discuss current crime rates and clearance rates as they apply to homicides in the United States.
*Significance of UCR reporting and the use of demographics to develop crime patterns and the allocation of resources.
*Define and discuss unresolved homicide investigation by categories of cold case, inactive homicide and exceptional scenarios.
*Organization of the case file by chronological occurrence.
*Evaluation of the geographic profile around the murder scene and the use of VICAP to identify similar indicators between offenses.
*Review and discuss the 6 factors of risk-assessment and behavioral analysis of victimology.
*Using the scientific method to identify variables in a case review to develop new theory regarding motive and method of operation.
*The significance of applying indicators when reviewing crime scene photographs to establish a likely association between the victim and offender.
*Case reviews will be discussed each day using different victimology scenarios.
*Identifying causal factors that result in homicide cases not being resolved.
*Establishing a point value computer-based tracking system to manage multiple unsolved cases.
*Importance of working with the coroner, medical examiner and prosecutor’s office.
*Updated forensic procedures to recover trace DNA from challenging substrates.
*Discuss the use of CODIS, databases, genetic genealogy and familial DNA searching to identify relatives of an unknown DNA profile.
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