Description
Book SynopsisEquivocal Death: Investigating Suicide, Accidental, and other Questionable Deaths refocuses the attention of first responders and investigative personnel to the concept of treating every death as a homicideâthat is, until sufficient evidence is discovered to validate another manner of death and eliminate the possibility of a staged homicide.
All death investigations should include a well-documented and examined crime scene and a thorough preliminary investigation. It is a well-established, unwritten âœruleâ when conducting death investigations to initially treat every death as a possible homicide. This includes the examination of the body, the recovery scene, the autopsy, collection of forensic evidence, and subsequent laboratory analysis. Police and investigators are often confronted with a death scene that they cannot initially determine the manner of death: these instances are known as equivocal death.
Coverage focuses on the basics of death investigatio
