Crime Scene Investigation

We were put into groups and given a handful of clues to knit together a crime scene.



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Clue 1 -Ripped Up Note:  

 -We decided it was not a suicide because the handwriting matched Lucas Moore’s

-Flowy

-The letters are connected

-G’s curl at bottom, I’s are dotted high and to the right

Clue 2- Hair:

-Caucasian

Clue 3-Print:

-Plain Arch

Clue 4- Dyed Liquid:

-pH=8

-Not drugs

-Not sugar water, aspirin, ammonia, cyanide, or iodine

Clue 5/6- Photos:

-Rotting Skull; active decay stage, 20-50 days after death

-Maggots; butyric fermentation

Clue 7-Footprints:

-Victim’s footprint; height: 6 7/8 in, width: 4 in, athletic treads, running (?), young child

-Perpetrator’s footprint; height: 11 in, width: 4 in, athletic treads, running (?), man

Clue 8-Lifted Print:

-Ulnar loop

Clue 9-Additional Fingerprint:

-Double loop whorl

Clue 10- Fiber:

-looks synthetic, braided, nylon (?)

Clue 11- Syringe

Decided Guilty:

Lucas Moore: fingerprints are both plain arch, hair matches, handwriting matches

Suspected Scenario:

       Lucas Moore’s wife divorced him, taking their young son. He soon went crazy and was admitted to a mental institute. He broke out, stealing what he thought was a drug (unknown substance and syringe). He left a suicide note for the mother, planning on taking the kid. He waited in the woods for his son to pass by on his way home from school. He tried to take the boy, but the child fought back, explaining the missing tooth on the skeleton and the handful of hair (clue 2). Moore accidentally killed his son and fled the scene.