Photograpy

Christine Morton

Instructor: Lynn Olsen

CCJS 342 6380

January 23, 2016

Photography Assignment

Every crime scene has a story and a path of events that needs to be told. Stories all have a beginning, a body of information (a middle), and an ending. The ending can only be known by the person that committed the crime for the time being, while those reading the bits of knowledge are left to guess about what the evidence and crumbs of information might lead to. Crime is meant to be solved and the truth must come out. That is why documenting and investigating a crime scene is helpful to investigators with the use of photography. Pictures of how the crime went down become the investigators’ best source of information towards figuring out what might have happened and where. The pictures start telling the story in more depth than before. Photographs are not evidence by themselves but they do provide a visual document of the crime scene and the location of where evidence was found. Photos of any type will not do. These photos must be specific. The lighting, distance and angles are all key to making a photo valuable in a crime scene and also, much more valuable in the long-run of catching a suspect!

Christine Morton’s Breaking and Entering Plus Burglary Crime Scene

It was a cold day. Windy and the forecast had snowfall in the near future. Christine had been cleaning and opened a window to let more natural air in for a time. Christine received a call and had rushed out to do some errands, leaving the window and the screen open by accident. When Christine returned home four hours later, she noticed something was wrong. Not only was the window from earlier open, but on her way to the back of her home, walking through the patio, the kitchen door was open. Not trusting the situation, Christine called Police on her cell phone and waited for their arrival.

When police arrived, the house was secured and I was not allowed inside. They entered my home to observe for...