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Have you ever wondered how the great fictional detectives of literature, such as Hercules Pierot, Sherlock Holmes, Mrs. Marple, etc., were able to “solve” crimes quickly, yet it takes so long for the police to do the same? The authors, of course, can write and shape things as they want, whereas the police have to work under specific rules. The authors can create “clues” that are used by the sharp minds of their detectives to eliminate the innocent and identify the guilty and to reconstruct what happened. Law enforcement must find and recognize clues. The authors have studied human behavior and the environments in which they live so they are able to point out those things that are out of the ordinary. They use the logical extension of the clues that they have created to develop the story. Similarly, law enforcement has studied the behavior of criminals and the environment in which they work. They use the same logical extension of the clues to develop a theory (or a story) about the crime. This is crime reconstruction.
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Chisum, W.J. (2006). Crime Reconstruction. In: Mozayani, A., Noziglia, C. (eds) The Forensic Laboratory Handbook. Forensic Science and Medicine. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1385/1-59259-946-X:63
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