How to draw a crime scene sketch

Criminal Investigation Question

Assignment 2

Students,

This is an activity in which you will be sketching a created crime scene. In drawing the sketch, use any drawing program of your computer, or scan your sketch, or submit a photo of your drawing, etc. It is suggested to save your sketch as a .jpg, a .gif, or a .pdf file and submit the sketch in the Dropbox.

Instructions

Materials needed: Textbook-Chapter 3, sections on "Sketching the Crime Scene," metal measuring tape, pencil, and coin. Select a room of your apartment/house, place a pencil and a coin at different places on the floor. Assume these two items are critical items of evidence. Select two pieces of furniture in the room. Assume that these are the only two items in the room other than the two items of evidence. Draw a rough (not finished) sketch of the room including all the elements that should be included in a rough sketch (the two pieces of evidence, two pieces of furniture, doors, and dimensions). Be sure to use the rectangular or triangulation method to take measurements to pinpoint the items of evidence on the floor.. Include the title block and legend. (See Rough Sketch, Chapter 3 of textbook for assistance).

Assignment 3

Students,

To help you with this assignment read "Crime Scene Reconstruction" Chapter 6 in the First Edition textbook, or Chapter 7 in the Second or Third Edition. Studying the Application and Critical Thinking exercises at the end of the respective chapter would be especially helpful in answering this assignment.

Instructions

Analyze the following scenario, and answer the questions at the end of the scenario.

While investigating a murder scene, police gather evidence that includes a dead body with a gun shot wound to the chest, bloody fingerprints on the front of the victim's shirt, a gun on the floor close to the body, and bloody shoe prints leaving the scene. Investigators determine that the gun belonged to the victim, and the bloody fingerprints was the victim's blood, but the fingerprints belonged to the victim's business partner. No blood was on the shoes of the victim. Through investigation, it was determined that the bloody shoe prints matched the size and type of shoes that the business partner had bought at an expensive department store one week prior to the incident. The prints did not match the shoe size or style of shoes owned by the victim.