Course Dates
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2019
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Thursday, January 24th, 2019
Course Hours | 8:00 a - 5:00 p
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Course Location
Travis Co. Sheriff's Office Training Academy 3614 Bill Price Road
#50
Del Valle, TX 78617 Driving Directions
Aaron Ramirez
Travis County Sheriff's Office
(512) 854-1227
info@forensicpieces.com
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Hyatt Place - Austin Airport | 9532 Spirit Of Austin Ln., Austin, TX 78719 | (850) 272-5001
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Staged Crime Scene Investigations
January 22 - 24, 2019
Austin, TX
Presented By: Jan Johnson, CSCSA
Course Description
Any deliberate effort made by an offender before police arrive to alter the pristine condition of a crime scene to purposely thwart the investigation and frustrate the overall criminal justice process is the essence of crime scene staging. Crime scene staging could be increasing due to public fascination with crime scene related media, enhanced awareness of forensic science application, and/or offenders’ belief in their understanding of how crime scenes should look. This comprehensive, 24-hour course is designed for crime scene investigators, detectives, crime laboratory analysts, and other forensic professionals involved in crime scene examination related work. This course explores what is known about crime scene staging and instructs students on how to use a new methodology for the early detection and analysis of potentially staged crime scenes. This course also integrates critical documentation techniques used to create a permanent record of bloodstain pattern evidence and/or firearms-related incident evidence for the purpose of a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary crime scene reconstruction towards supporting or refuting claims made by a would-be crime scene stager.
$445 Per Student
Course Topics
• Equivocal death investigations
• Historical perspectives
• Incidental altercation in scenes
• Types of crime scene staging
• Primary scenes
• Secondary vs tertiary scenes
• Red flag indicators
• Note taking, report writing
• General documentation of physical evidence
• Biological evidence Detection and collection
• Other evidence to be aware of and collected
• Profiling the stager
• Case examples of staged scenes for problem solving