Forensic Science, 5th period, 4/18

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Abby was standing at the door of the danger shop, handing out hardhats along with the usual labcoats. "Welcome to the last class. I'm really sad that this class is ending, I've had a fun time killing off your fellow teachers and classmates."

"Today we're going to be focusing on one last aspect of forensic science." Abby said, donning her own hard hat. "Figuring out the differences between an accident and a homicide."

"Not everyone that dies has been killed." Abby lectured. "And sometimes murders can be set up to look like accidents. You need to be smarter than the cops, smarter than the doctors, smarter than the criminals to solve these type of crimes."

She flashed up two scenes on the plasma screen, both of drowning victims. "These scenes are similar, but one was an accidental drowning and the other was a homicide. There are a few obvious clues and some not-so-obvious ones."

Waiting until the class had finished talking about the scenes, Abby herded them to the door that led to the crime scene. It opened into a large warehouse, complete with piles of wood pallets and flickering lights.

In the center of the room was a puddle of water and an electrical wire surrounding the body of Jake Gavin. "You're job is to figure out if Jake died as a result of an accident or somebody killed him. Oh, the wire isn't live so none of you are in danger. I just think hard hats are fun to wear."

[ooc: ocd up!]

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[cheerfulgoth.livejournal.com]

Do a little dance...

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[slr-mercury.livejournal.com]

Ami Mizuno

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[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana Lang

Lecture

[cheerfulgoth.livejournal.com]

It's like a Hallmark activity gone horribly wrong! Find what's different about the drowning pictures.

Handout:
Time of death:
Cause of death:
Other injuries:
Trace evidence on body:

[ooc: Answers for the class exercise are totally moddable. Handout = stuff you find out in the crime scene threads]

Re: Lecture

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker held the photos up, checking them against each other, skin color, whites of the eyes, and the internal injuries.

Re: Lecture

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"Hey Professor I really enjoyed this class."

Re: Lecture

[cheerfulgoth.livejournal.com]

"You should wait until after the final before you tell me that." Abby grinned. "You just might not like it as much after that."

Crime Scene

[cheerfulgoth.livejournal.com]

The warehouse is bare, but studious students will be able to discover two sets of footprints in the sawdust behind a crate. They'll also find that the downed wire was cut.

Re: Crime Scene

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana carefully examined the scene, taking pictures of the scene and the footprints and making careful note of everything there.

Re: Crime Scene

[kitty--fetish.livejournal.com]

Alphonse carefully circled around the scene, looking for anything that seemed off or could contribute to figuring out what had happened. Whenever he did, he took careful note of it.

Re: Crime Scene

[the_merriest]

Rikku wandered around the warehouse, not focusing as well as usual. Her heart wasn't really in it. But she did find the footprints eventually.

Re: Crime Scene

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Billy wandered around the warehouse, and noted, and took pictures of the footprints, and the wire.

Re: Crime Scene

[imissmydolphin.livejournal.com]

Lucas took pictures of the footprints and made sure to include something for size comparison.

Re: Crime Scene

[swerval_zero]

Zero took careful notes on the important-seeming bits of the scene, along with photographing the footprints and cut wire.

Re: Crime Scene

[dorky-broots.livejournal.com]

Broots walke through the scene and studied the wires carefully.

Crime Scene - I see dead people!

[cheerfulgoth.livejournal.com]

Jake is lying in a puddle of water, looking...well, mostly just looking wet.

[ooc: Jake's not really dead so normal playing rules apply. Please not to be messing with the character without checking with the player first.]

Re: Crime Scene - I see dead people!

[courier-gavin.livejournal.com]

Jake was dead. Yes, indeed. At least he hadn't been shot in the head this time, he thought ruefully and waited for people to ask him stuff from his list.

Re: Crime Scene - I see dead people!

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Hey Jake," Lana said with as much of a smile as she could manage today. "Um... time and cause of death? Any other injuries? Anything else I should notice? Like trace evidence, I mean?"

Re: Crime Scene - I see dead people!

[the_merriest]

"Hiya," Rikku said, with less bounce than usual. "Uh, so, you're dead, and ... when did you die? Any weird injuries? Poisons or things like that? Anything unusual?"

Re: Crime Scene - I see dead people!

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"Hey, Jake," Parker said, kind of subdued. "How are you doing? Aside from dead."

CHUNG CHUNG

[cheerfulgoth.livejournal.com]

No lab needed today. Just tell the cops whether you think it's an accident or a crime. Feel free to figure out the crime if you want.

Re: CHUNG CHUNG

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana explained how Jake and his friend had snuck into the warehouse (getting sawdust on him in the process) to try and steal wire, not realizing that the one Jake was cutting into was live. After having live current run through him, he'd fallen to the ground and into the puddle of water.

Which is so not in any way like the case around here a few weeks ago. *eye roll* Except there was no puddle.

Re: CHUNG CHUNG

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker frowned. "Jake's death was set up to look like an accident-- the wires here were never life. So he was killed somewhere else, then brought here and his death staged to look like an attempted break-in."

OOC

[cheerfulgoth.livejournal.com]

Major thanks to Jake for being our dead person today!

Re: CHUNG CHUNG

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

no talk to the teacher?