homicide investigation
Slaying case inquiry
A homicide investigation is the police inquiry following a suspicious death, aimed at determining whether a crime occurred and identifying the responsible party.
The term appears constantly in crime reporting and procedural dramas: Detectives opened a homicide investigation after the body was discovered.
Such investigations involve evidence collection, witness interviews, and autopsy results.
- crime sceneLocation of an offense
- interrogationFormal, probing examination
- person of interestIndividual warranting investigation
- prime suspectMost probable perpetrator
- fingerprint analysisIdentifying people by digit patterns
blood spatter · criminal profiling · criminal procedure · witness interviews · victimology · DNA profiling · forensic anthropology · next of kin · witness protection · chain of custody · digital forensics · body bag · behavioral patterns · surveillance · evidence collection · burden of proof · toxicology reports · murder weapon
- criminal investigationsinvestigations, crime scene, crime scenes, crime scene analysis, detectives
- police workpatrol, arrests, arrest, stings, busts
- forensic pathologyautopsy, coroner, medical examiner, cause of death, pathologist
- death investigationautopsy report, cause of death, death certificate, coroner's office, forensic pathologist
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Non-criminal court proceedings
property dispute · contract negotiation · traffic citation · divorce proceeding · tax audit
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