Topczewski later said he was leaving a homicide scene when he got the call.
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You can't do a homicide justice when you're running from one homicide scene to another.
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Police believe they've located the murder weapon after conducting a ground search of the homicide scene, Det. Sgt.
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Bryan Topczewski, who was leaving another homicide scene, heard the call -- "child's been shot" -- and raced toward their house.
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Mr. Gramiccioni added that the quadruple homicide scene was "one of most heinous cases" that investigators had ever seen.
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"That smell, if you've never been to a homicide scene, is the smell of death," Phillips said, standing over Cuzco.
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"So you kind of take a typical homicide scene, multiply it by 50, even that just won't prepare you for what you see," he said.
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I've learned that in trying murder cases, one of the most important witnesses is often the sometimes inexperienced patrolman who first responds to the homicide scene.
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"That's probably the worst homicide scene I've ever seen," recalls retired LAPD officer Jerry DeRossa, the first law enforcement official to arrive at the scene of the Tate home.
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The police department staged the fake homicide scene as part of a criminal investigation that caught Dalia Dippolito on video apparently seeking out a contract killer through an ex-lover, Mohamed Shihadeh.
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When Thurmond arrived at the station house to set up, the contents of his trunk spoke to the wide-ranging job he was now undertaking: Next to a tumbleweed of police tape, collected from a recent homicide scene, were three plastic bags from Walmart filled with cookies, plastic cups, and napkins.
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One PowerPoint presentation instructed investigators to "treat an overdose scene as a homicide scene from the beginning"; to look for remnants of naloxone, the revival agent, as evidence that someone was there when the victim died; and to use the victim's cellphone to set up another deal before the supplier finds out the victim is dead.
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"[Siwiak] wasn't afforded the initial experts in processing the homicide scene", Prate said in 2011. While he hoped the investigators who were able to respond collected all the evidence they could, he could not be sure they had, either. "The Police Department gave that investigation what it could do that day." The evidence-collection technicians were able to retrieve spent shell casings from the .
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The women were killed in an apartment rented by South Chicago Community Hospital on East 100th Street. Photographers and reporters from The Daily Calumet were the first media on the scene and were allowed unparalleled access to the homicide scene. The newspaper also extensively reported and photographed the October 30, 1972 collision between two Illinois Central commuter trains, which originated from the IC's 91st Street station in South Chicago. The wreck, which killed 45 people and injured 332, remains the worst commuter rail crash in Chicago's history, and carried a number of victims from the newspaper's coverage area.
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On March 15, 2019, the Philadelphia Inquirer released a front-page investigative report reviewing the suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of Ellen Greenberg. Pittsburgh forensic pathologist Cyril H. Wecht, who famously challenged the single-bullet theory of the John F. Kennedy assassination, reviewed the case and determined it was "strongly suspicious of homicide" also stated, "I don't know how they wrote this off as a suicide." Similarly, forensic scientist Henry Lee, who testified for the defense in the O.J. Simpson murder trial reviewed the case files and concluded, "[t]he number and types of wounds and bloodstain patterns observed are consistent with a homicide scene." One significant point of contention were the stab wounds that penetrated Ellen Greenberg's brain.
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On Saturday September 19, 2009, the family of Guerline Damas contacted the Collier County Sheriff's Office to file a missing person's report, as they had not heard from Guerline since Thursday, September 17, 2009 and she had not reported to work. At 7:03 PM that evening, deputies arrived at the Damas family's residence to conduct a welfare check on Guerline Damas and her five children. It was at this time that deputies entered the residence and noticed what appeared to be blood leaking from a closed door under the stairs, with floor rugs pushed against it to cover the space between the bottom of the door and the tile floor beneath it. The residence was then secured as a possible homicide scene.
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