Posted: August 1st, 2017

Combining Scientific Expertise to Locate and Identify Crime Victims

Required
This discussion will focus on analyzing the issues surrounding the collaborative efforts of scientific experts and police investigative experts in locating and evaluating clandestine graves or other atypical situations involving the discarding and/or hiding of deceased victims. Explain how these experts’ process and retrieve trace evidence with an emphasis on contemporary specialized techniques concerning clandestine graves. Analyze the accepted methodologies that are employed concerning crime scene management in light of the areas of expertise of the various participating experts. Prior to completing this discussion, please read the required resources for this the article by Burks, the article by Costandi, and visit the Necrosearch, Intl. website. Using a minimum of two scholarly and/or professional sources from the Ashford University Library or another scholarly source of information, identify one example where a consortium of scientific experts or individual scientific expert(s) worked in conjunction with law enforcement to locate and identify a clandestine grave and determine the nature of the expertise they provided.