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    Baily Mcmillan Mrs.Wilcox English 9C 17 Oct. 2016 Homicide Detective V.S. Criminologist When you see the shows such as Homicide Hunter or Killer Instincts many times my mom and I try to figure out who is the murder. Most of the time my prediction is right because of the details my mom misses, and putting together all the clues. From then on I realised I had a gift, even if it was I was just watching television show. That is what sparked my interest the criminal justice area. I have contemplated

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    When detective Bill and Pedro came back, detective Bob had a breakthrough in the case. “I found a fingerprint on the door we knocked down earlier. I found a gun which had the fingerprint I found, and the fingerprint belongs to Brad,” said Bob. Pedro said confused, “Brad? Brad is Amy’s neighbor. Why would he kill her family?” “I don’t know, but we have to hurry before Brad kills Amy’s sisters and brothers,” said Bill terrified. Both the detectives and Pedro went to Amy’s

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    Sophocles' Oedipus the King as Nothing More Than a Detective Story The play “Oedipus the King” is a Greek tragedy written by Sophocles in the early days of antiquity and is based upon an ancient story in Greek mythology. It was written around a time when Rome was in power and Athens was the centre of the world. In this time, people believed that the Gods controlled all and that fate and destiny could never be escaped. Based on the title of this essay, I do believe

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    Detective Fiction Essay A detective fiction is a literary genre in form of a short story or novel that deals with crimes, usually murder and detectives are involved to seek out justice for the victims. The detectives involved in detective fictions can either be private, amateur, or police detectives. There are also other characters like the suspects and the side kicks. An amateur detective is a detective who has no license to operate as a private investigator neither is he/she a member of the police

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    title of “Detective Prince,” and was a consultant of the police, although she also often worked on her own. Even with this exterior, however, it's easier to illicit an emotional reaction out of Naoto than it first appears. This is especially true when dealing with a case, or when someone close to her is being threatened. Despite her serious appearance, she can act quite childish and narrow-minded at times. Her work and her job is one of her driving forces; her parents were both detectives, and died

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    Solving A Homicide Solving a crime is difficult for detectives. Homicides are even harder cases to solve, the only person that can really tell what happened is dead. So many people are afraid to step up as witnesses, they fear their life would be in jeopardy for helping the detectives. For homicide detectives, the first forty-eight hours is the most critical part for solving a case. After that, the probability of solving the case reduces by fifty percent. Each passing hour gives suspects more

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    Semiotic Analysis of True Detective In 1951, the first television crime drama series, Dragnet significantly influenced our American culture. According to the New Oxford American Dictionary, the term “dragnet” is a symbol, for, a system of coordinated measures used to apprehend criminals or suspects. Most crime drama series solve a different case each episode. Although, in current pop-culture crime dramas focus on one particular crime, throughout an entire season. Similar, to the show “Homeland,”

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    car today. It smells like there’s been a dead body in the damn car.” (Tru TV) later on when the car was taken by the police she said that the smell could have come from garbage in the car. The County Sherriff’s Detective Yuri Melich testified in court saying “I was a homicide detective for 2 years and in my opinion the smell coming from the car was the smell of decomposition.” (Examiner) To investigate the odor in the trunk, they brought in Dr. Vass who used a new technique to define the odor in

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    Things were going great for Colton and me and then I received the shock of my life. It was a typical morning in court. The Court Clerk went through the normal protocol and said, “The court will now hear the case of Lincoln Montclair.” This was a murder case that had been committed two days prior. Initially, I didn’t recognize the man who was standing before me because he appeared to have been badly beaten. However, he looked a lot like Colton. But, I knew if this were actually Colton, I would

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    Most people would not think of robots helping drugs crime investigators. "They thought I was insane," says Richard Soh, Head of Investigation Support at Singapore's Central Narcotics Bureau (2017). To help in tranquillize wrongdoing examinations, Soh is portraying the answer from some of his partners when he initially presented utilizing mechanical autonomy. Due to the nation's maturing populace, like numerous other government association in Singapore, CNB is confronting a lack of labour. In the

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