Foreword

It has been said that when an investigator finds herself in a position of working on an investigation, it’s like working a math problem backward. There are several phases that comprise phases in an investigation. These phases are reports taken, photographs taken, forensics gathered, and all the data assigned to an investigative team. After a considerable amount of time spent gathering additional evidence, interviews, and statements collected, the legwork has been completed and hopefully the criminals or suspects have been identified as well as located. After being arrested and Mirandized, they are processed. They then are either released on bail or perhaps indicted by a grand jury, incarcerated, or given instructions to appear. As ...

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