FlyAzzLove asked this question on 4/18/2000:
This is for a book, so I need some help making sure the conclusions drawn are realistic of your average cop/detective. WARNING...kind of gruesome.
There's been a string of murders....the first two are actually deemed missing persons because the bodies have never been found (am I correct to say that missing persons is a different division than homocide...so as soon as a body turns up a different detective is called in?).The third body lies sprawled on the floor ( a female in her own first floor apartment). The door is untampered, the chain still linked. The window is shattered. A small coffee table is the only turned over piece of furniture the magazines and a shattered glass spread on the floor. The girl is nude, with a hankerchief covering her eyes. Her wrists are red and bloody as if she was bonded but they aren't now. The arms are outstreched to the sides so her body looks like that of a 'T.' They've recovered hair, that seems to be of a cat, and s bit of blood that is not the victim's. Her fingertips have been removed. On her stomach is carved "The Last One" on her back, "Is Coming." Oh yeah...the victim is found lying on her back.
Paul157 gave this response on 4/26/2000:
This is a different answer than what you are looking for perhaps....
The answers you have recieved are all trying to point you towards the perfect crime scene. While I think it is important that you, as the writer, understand the nature of the crime by asking for "xpert" advise I think it is more important that you write a story the way YOU think it should go.
My point is that most stories portray the police as "Andy Taylor" or as "Bobby Simone" in NYPD. There are few if any stories that portray the detective or officer as a real person. A person that may have just lost a loved one and isn't thinking clearly, an alcoholic, a person that couldn't sleep last night due to a cat howling in the alley, a person who is sick, broke, tired, depressed, excited, rich, Christian (or other), gay etc..
There are no perfect crime scenes, there are no perfect cops.
Best wishes!!
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