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Basic and Thaumaturgical Forensics - Wednesday, Period Four - 7/22
"Physical evidence," she started off as soon as her students were in their seats, "is, quite obviously, both some of the most important you're going to have on a case and some of the most confusing. Anything, from a shoe to a handgun, will tell you something about what happened at the scene of the crime, but figuring out the important from the unimportant is where you must be the most careful."
She lifted, as she'd mentinoed, a shoe from the desk.
"A deductive mind would say that this shoe, found on the murdered victim, was scuffed and torn during the flight from his attacker," and she pointed with one finger, "indicating either an unexperienced attacker or someone whom the victim knew to be afraid of."
Abby Irene smiled at the class wryly.
"That idea, however, loses all water when you consider that the victim was found in his home with no signs of a struggle or forced entry. This scuff is merely evidence that the gentleman in question was careless with his things, or without means to have his shoes shined regularly."
She put the shoe down.
"Magically, of course, there are other things you can do with a piece of evidence, and we'll get there. But for now, I'm going to give each of you a piece of 'evidence' and I'd like to see what you get from it with only a few minor details included."
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She lifted, as she'd mentinoed, a shoe from the desk.
"A deductive mind would say that this shoe, found on the murdered victim, was scuffed and torn during the flight from his attacker," and she pointed with one finger, "indicating either an unexperienced attacker or someone whom the victim knew to be afraid of."
Abby Irene smiled at the class wryly.
"That idea, however, loses all water when you consider that the victim was found in his home with no signs of a struggle or forced entry. This scuff is merely evidence that the gentleman in question was careless with his things, or without means to have his shoes shined regularly."
She put the shoe down.
"Magically, of course, there are other things you can do with a piece of evidence, and we'll get there. But for now, I'm going to give each of you a piece of 'evidence' and I'd like to see what you get from it with only a few minor details included."
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She wasn't sure about the magic part, but she wrote it down, too. Maybe that was a later class? She was a bit bouncier at the thought and added a heart to the end of the note in her notebook.
Physical Evidence - Mundane
"Get into groups, or pairs, or whatever you like, and investigate these three shoes with the information provided to tell me what you can deduce from them."
Shoe #1
The note attached says found in her home, a well-maintained household; she was a mother of two.
Re: Shoe #1
Evidence, Momoko! Evidence! She shook her head, squatted, and stared eye-level at the boot. "Hmm. What would a mom be doing in heels that she would get mud on her favourite shoes?"
Shoe #2
The note attached says found in an alley.
Shoe #3
The note says found near the docks.
Physical Evidence - Magick (Discussion)
"What can you do, magickally speaking, using something like the victim's shoe to help you figure out what happened?"
Re: Physical Evidence - Magick (Discussion)
She scrunched down in her seat a bit and tried to look small. Hopefully her luck would hold out and she wouldn't get called on for anything.
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Abby Irene
OOC