Solving a murder doesn\u2019t require a Gucci sweater vest and dramatic monologues, Special Agent Audey Murphy joked. The popular forensic show \u201cCSI: Crime Scene Investigation\u201d gets some things right, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) agent said, but by and large, the real work is a long, hard and often gritty process.<\/p>\n
GHC\u2019s Political Science and Criminal Justice Club hosted a number of law enforcement officers this week to demonstrate how professional crime scene investigations take place in the field.<\/p>\n
Murphy was accompanied by Floyd County Police Chief Mark Wallace and Major Jeff Jones, as well as Floyd County detectives. Murphy created a mock crime scene and walked students through the process of investigating a serious case like murder.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Crime Scene Specialists are required to attend ten-week programs with 170 hours of classwork and 230 hours of fieldwork. Murphy, who has been with the GBI for 21 years and working crime scenes for 17, gave a crash course on the kinds of topics covered in the more extensive program, like blood splatter analysis, technologies used in the field, and key indicators for determining how a crime happened.<\/p>\n
Murphy explained that GBI agents use their specialized training and equipment to search for, identify and collect evidence to examine, interpret and preserve physical evidence discovered at crime scenes.<\/p>\n
Sometimes this includes digitally reconstructing a crime scene with specialized camera equipment or mapping out bullet trajectories with lasers or using blood drops and splatters, shoe impressions and fingerprints to determine exactly how a crime took place.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Part of Murphy\u2019s job also sees him guest lecturing and instructing for police academies and other educational and service organizations.<\/p>\n
After the presentation concluded, students were able to use forensic field tools on the mock crime scene to practice what they had learned during the course.<\/p>\n
The Floyd County Police Mobile Crime Scene Unit was also on display for students after the course.<\/p>\n
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