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Crime Scene Staging: An Exploratory Study of the Frequency and Characteristics of Sexual Posing in Homicides

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Crime scene staging and sexual posing and/or positioning of a body in a crime scene are recognized homicide investigation phenomena. Even though staging and sexual posing might misdirect an investigation if unrecognized, there are no reliable data on the frequency of occurrences. The results of a survey administered to 46 trained homicide investigators indicated that while staging may be frequently observed at crime scenes, sexual posing occurs infrequently. Of an estimated 44,541 homicide investigations, respondents indicated that sexual posing was present in less than 1% of the cases (n = 428). Results also indicated that most often sexual posing, in contrast to crime scene staging, was typically not carried out to mislead, but the offenders' motivation was more often based on a psychological need for sexual fantasizing or to satisfy anger at the victim. Homicide case examples are presented and discussed to elaborate on the characteristics of sexually-posed crime scenes The scene of a homicide is the most important criminal

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Crime Scene Clues to Suspect Misdirection of the Investigation

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In the course of their career, most detectives and forensic practitioners will come into contact with a staged crime scene; a scene that has been altered by the offender to either mislead a police investigation as to the true facts of the crime or for other reasons understood only by the offender. To better understand the dynamics of the event, the nature of “staging” is examined through the introduction of distinct categories of staged crime scenes based on the motive of the offender’s misdirection. With this in mind, the offender’s objective relevant to the staged event can be divided into three separate types, Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary. The Primary staged scene involves intentional and purposeful, altering or changing of the crime scene with specific criminal intent to misdirect a police investigation, where as Secondary staging involves the intentional alteration or manipulation of the crime scene or victim by an offender that is unrelated to misdirecting or diverting subsequent investigations. Noncriminal alterations; i.e.

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