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Death and Homicide Investigation
Length of Seminar:
3 Days
Instructor: David
D. Taylor
Course Overview:
The sudden or unexplained death of an individual has a profound
impact on family and friends of the deceased and places
a significant responsibility on the investigator(s) and
agency(s) tasked with determining the cause of death/homicide
and person or persons involved.
This three (3) day training module will assist
in providing the knowledge and skills required to put the
pieces of the puzzle together through understanding the
manner of death, evidence and the crime scene, cause of
death, time of death, rigor mortis, autopsy and suspects
involved in a suspicious, unexpected, unusual, violent or
sudden death/homicide.
Upon Completion:
Attendees will have been provided the specific skills
to:
- Understand the purpose and investigative information
provided by an autopsy
- How to estimate the time of death
- Establish the identity of the deceased
- Modes of Injury and death/homicide
- First officer’s duties
- Considerations for the homicide crime scene
- Crime scene processing
- Collection of evidence
- Sexual related homicides
- Drug related homicides
- Criminal personality profiling
- Child death and SIDS
- Notification of family
- Police/prosecutor and medicals roles
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