criminal investigation question

ASSIGNMENT #2 story plot

THE CONTINUING INVESTIGATION: LEADS, WITNESSES, INTERVIEWS AND INTERROGATION

Basic Leads

Background Investigation

Sources of Information

Neighborhood Canvass

Pleas for Public Cooperation

You are a detective assigned to the Homicide Unit of the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office in Jersey City.

You have been assigned as Case Detective to investigate a homicide on the campus of New Jersey City University.

On October 25, 2020 , at approximately 9:30 pm, the Jersey City Police Department received a 911 call to respond to NJCU on the report of a deceased person discovered in a vehicle parked in Lot # 7, adjacent to the West Campus Village Dormitory. The victim, a female student resident of the dormitory, was found sitting in the driver’s seat of the vehicle, apparently strangled to death. The following pieces of information emerged from the crime scene:

· There were no signs of a break-in and the car door was unlocked with the driver’s side window open.

· The victim’s purse was missing.

· A flower was tucked behind her ear.

· The rear tires were slashed.

The crime scene has already been processed with the Crime-Scene Follow-Up sketching, photography, evidence search and collection having been completed. Fingerprints were lifted from the vehicle door. Blood and skin fragments were taken from the victim’s fingernails. Evidence found at the scene is now in custody at the Prosecutor’s Office or has been sent to the New Jersey State Police Laboratory for analysis.

You are now directing the Continuing Investigation and are in the Critical Period (“The First 48”).