On the fourth day of Forensics Week, Mr. Garside divided my classmates and me into groups of three to assess the crime scene that we will continue to focus on throughout the rest of the week!
This year's scenario is based on a true case that Mr. Garside has worked in the past as a detective, where he responded to a call from a man who called to report his wife, who is deceased on the floor covered in blankets. Both the husband and wife suffered from Stage 4 cancer, with the wife just recently diagnosed. The man was sitting in a wheelchair, with his wife upstairs dead. Our job was to decipher if this was a mercy killing by her husband to put her out of misery, or suicide on the wife's own accord.
When we walked into the crime scene, the man in the wheelchair was very distraught, with the only phrases he would repeat being "I need a priest," and "I don't know what I'm going to do." In the room with the deceased wife surrounded by pills, and her head covered and tied up with a plastic bag. There were many books surrounding the scene, with one, in particular, sticking out to my group and me titled, "Final Exit," which had a page "dog-eared," with contents of how to commit suicide with pills and a plastic bag.
This particular piece of evidence along with no visible signs of struggle on the body made it clear to our group that this case was a suicide, and would argue this in a slideshow presentation which we will present in front of our class and Mr. Garside tomorrow to conclude this year's Forensics Week!
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