IAI CCSI case studies
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The Certified Crime Scene Investigator (CCSI) credential is offered by the International Association for Identification (IAI), which describes itself as the oldest and largest forensic association in the world. The IAI states that it represents a diverse, knowledgeable and experienced membership assembled to educate, share, critique and publish methods, techniques and research in the physical forensic science disciplines, and it lists Crime Scene Investigation among its forensic science disciplines. The IAI CCSI case studies are 5 cases and about 3,781 words.
1The Cable, the Glass, and the Four-Hour Deadline
At 02:10 you arrive at a one-bedroom apartment where a 27-year-old woman says an acquaintance strangled her with a phone-charging cable and sexually assaulted her about three hours earlier. She has been taken to hospital.
790 words, about 4 min2Rain, a Revolver in a Puddle, and a Boot
At 21:40, in steady rain, a 34-year-old man is found in the driver's seat of a sedan on the third level of a public parking garage, with a single gunshot wound to the left chest. Paramedics removed him; the driver's door stands open, the engine is off, the headlights are on.
757 words, about 4 min3The Pour Pattern and the Standing Water
At 05:15 firefighters finish extinguishing a bedroom fire in a 1970s single-family house. One adult is dead on the floor beside the bed; the family dog died in the hallway.
761 words, about 4 min4Two and a Half Hours of Daylight
A hunter reports a human skull at the base of a tree in mixed woodland 400 m from a gravel logging road. You arrive at 15:40 in late October; sunset is 18:10 and 25 mm of rain is forecast overnight.
755 words, about 4 min5Suspected Fentanyl and a 13:00 Checkout
At 09:20 you attend a hotel room where a 24-year-old man has been pronounced dead. On the nightstand lie a folded paper packet holding about 0.5 g of pale powder, a syringe with dark residue, a spoon, a lighter, and two blue tablets stamped 'M/30'.
718 words, about 4 min