Crime Scene Processing 2.0 Multimedia DVD | Guide to Examination Quality Photography

Eagle Crime Scenes, Inc., has taken an innovative approach to providing crime scene training. Too many crime scene processing manuals are full of theory with very little practical application. When you're in the field at an actual crime scene, you don't need a book that tells you about all the different things that can be done on television; you need a manual that will guide you through the steps of processing the scene you're at right now. You need a manual that will tell you how to photograph your crime scene, how to document the evidence, how to collect measurements, how to process floors for footwear impressions, how to photograph fingerprints on difficult surfaces, how to use chemicals to brings up important evidence, and, most of all, how to put everything together into the finished product: a case ready to be presented in court.

With the print version of Crime Scene Processing: Basic Principles and Practices for the Successful Identification, Documentation, Processing and Collection of Physical Evidence at Crime Scenes, president of Eagle Crime Scenes, Inc., Michael F. LaForte gave you just that: a step-by-step, how-to guide for processing all types of crime scenes.

Now, Eagle Crime Scenes, Inc., brings you a multimedia, software version of this highly-successful crime scene processing manual that combines text with full-color photographs and videos that will take you through the steps of processing crime scenes right in the field! Simply insert the data DVD in your laptop computer and select the lesson you need to review. Can't remember how to apply amido black to a tile floor? Just select the video and you'll be shown all the steps you need to know to properly get the job done.

A student photographs a hand impression in blood at a mock crime scene during an photography class in Valdosta, GA. (Photo by Michael A. Knox)

"Crime scene work requires us to learn from our past experiences and apply it to the present while anticipating the future."

- Michael F. LaForte, President

Eagle Crime Scenes, Inc.

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Crime Scene Processing v. 2.0 is endorsed by the International Crime Scene Investigators Association. Eagle Crime Scenes, Inc., also endorses this organization. Please visit their website.

Crime Scene Processing v. 2.0 uses years of practical experience to provide you with a hands-on approach to crime scene training. (Click on the image for a larger view).

A fresh crime scene, especially a death scene, can be a very fluid, ever-changing environment that requires those processing the scene to be very flexible in their approach. A crime scene investigator can never afford the luxury of fixating on only one possibility or cause.

The importance of crime scene processing cannot be understated in any criminal investigation. The patrol officer initiates an investigation by writing the offense report, whether a simple battery, burglary or a homicide. If an arrest is made, it is based on probable cause.

The case investigator has the responsibility of solving the case and making the arrest. If the case is solved, it is most likely due to the physical evidence recovered by the crime scene investigator. Even if the suspect confesses, physical evidence is often still required to secure a conviction.

In most cases, the crime scene investigator must respond to a scene and enter an environment he/she has never been to before, and within a short period of time he/she must understand what has occurred. The investigator, based on human nature and individual experiences, must recognize the movements a suspect might have taken.

Physical evidence must be located legally, documented fully and collected properly. The crime scene investigator has no room for error when processing a crime scene.

It is only through continued training and attention to detail that the crime scene investigator will be successful in the pursuit of justice.

A crime scene, especially a major crime scene, can be a very daunting environment. Crime scene processing can also be disheartening because the results are not tangible. The results of hours and sometimes days of hard work are quite often not immediately known, leaving one to wonder whether his/her work was of any consequence.

Years might pass before a fingerprint recovered at a crime scene is identified to a suspect. One reason might be the person that left the print did not have an arrest record. On occasion, the State decides not to prosecute a suspect because they do not feel the case is strong enough, even though you collected all of the necessary evidence.

There will always be circumstances over which the crime scene investigator has no control. What can be controlled are the actions at the crime scene and the processes that are used. The crime scene investigator must be concerned with processing every scene for any and all evidence, finding it legally and collecting it properly. Then, if and when the case makes it to trial, the crime scene investigator will be prepared.

There might be times when you are being hurried through a scene either by the other investigators or immediate superiors for one reason or another. Remember that you are the one that will eventually have to testify to the processes that were used or were not used and to the evidence that was collected or was not collected. You will not be able to say you were rushed or hurried by someone else. You will be left all alone up on the witness stand to take the heat. Crime scene processing all begins with the proper attitude and preparation. There are no shortcuts.

Crime Scene Processing v. 2.0 uses an intuitive, user-friendly interface that is designed like a website so that it is simple to use. (Click on the image for a larger view).

"Finally, a book written by someone with years of field experience who can transfer that knowledge into a straightforward text. Your case studies in the back of the book were very interesting and insightful."

Det. Mark S. Fields
Charlottesville Police Dept.
Forensics Unit

CRIME SCENE PROCESSING, VERSION 2.0

PROGRAM LESSONS CONTAINED ON ONE DVD:

Lesson #1……The Constitution and You

Lesson #2…....Responding To the Crime Scene

Lesson #3…....Prepared To Process

Lesson #4…....The Crime Scene

Lesson #5…....Crime Scene Search

Lesson #6…....Processing the Crime Scene

Lesson #7…....Digital and Film SLR Cameras

Lesson #8…....Photographing the Crime Scene

Lesson #9…....Photographing Impression Evidence

Lesson #10…..Specialty Photography

Lesson #11…..Diagramming

Lesson #12…..Evidence

Lesson #13…..DNA Evidence

Lesson #14…..Fingerprints

Lesson #15…..Chemicals

Lesson #16…..Firearms and Ballistics

Lesson #17…..Surface Skeletons, Buried Bodies and Entomology

Lesson #18…..Alternate Light Sources

Lesson #19…..Narrative Construction

Lesson #20…..Courtroom Testimony

Lesson #21…..Case Histories

Lesson #22…..Crime Scene Scenarios

Lesson #23…..Crime Scene Reconstruction

Features Include:

- 700+ color photographs

- 70 page crime scene checklist

- Bloodstain pattern calculator

- Bullet trajectory calculator

- Bones of the skeleton (including high-quality photographs)

- Over 120 short video segments covering all aspects of crime scene processing

This program is intended to be taken into the field and used as an on-scene reference guide to walk you step-by-step through each and every crime scene you encounter.

Here's one of the videos on YouTube:

This fingerprint was developed on the sticky side of a piece of electrical tape using a chemical known as Wetwop®. Students at Eagle Crime Scenes, Inc. training courses developed this fingerprint and then photographed it. Our classes are developed with a hands-on training philosophy.

The videos play right inside your web browser so there's no switching between applications.

The program includes two special calculators, one for determining the location of a shooter from a bullet trajectory, and the other for calculating the origin of a bloodstain impact spatter pattern.

Don't leave evidence behind!

Guide to Examination Quality Photography is a comprehensive photographic procedure manual for use at any crime scene to recover latent, patent and plastic fingerprints, shoe and tire impressions, blood spatter, bite marks and tool marks. This book will walk the crime scene detective through the step-by-step procedures that are required to document this crucial impression evidence.

Table of Contents

Chapter One - What you need to know about forensic photography

Chapter Two - Photographing Fingerprint Impression Evidence

Chapter Three - Photographing Tire and Shoe impression Evidence

Chapter Four - Photographing Bite Marks and Tool Marks

Chapter Five - Photographing Blood Spatter Evidence

Chapter Six - Case Histories

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