Case Of Anna Garcia Essay

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The case of Anna Garcia is still a mystery. Anna died on August 14th at 7:00AM in Anytown, USA. The death occurred on a 92 degrees(F) summer morning and it was 73 degrees(F) inside her house. Her death is categorized in a natural manner. The scene of the crime is a small 200 x 300 centimeters, typical, everyday living room, around 10 items, with a coffee table, a lamp, and etc. The evidences found at crime scene included, a regular home phone on the left side of her feet approximately 39 centimeters away from her body, a used syringe filled with blood next to her left leg around 27.5 centimeters away from her, and a jug half filled with orange juice in front of her head lying horizontally about 29 centimeters away from her. Anna’s blood spattered …show more content…

The lamp is in front of her head around 70 centimeters away from her corpse. The coffee table about a couple inches away from her head at the crime scene is 45 x 45 centimeters and 50 centimeters high. The 2 white aspirins found on scene, along with a plastic, red cup lays 16 centimeters away from each other and is right next to the jug of orange juice. At the scene of the crime, there is also a puddle of vomit 12 centimeters away from the corpse, right next to her left arm. The people of interest in Anna’s case includes Alex Garcia, Erica Piedmont, Doug Greene, and Lucy Leffingwell. Alex Garcia is Anna’s former husband, who was last seen with her the night before her death at her house discussing some paperwork. Erica Piedmont, the new wife Alex Garcia, was seen sitting in a car parked on the street in front of Anna’s house the day before her death. Doug Greene, Anna’s neighbor and friend, who was recently involved with her romantically, but was quickly ended by Anna. Doug last saw Anna the day before her death at 6:30AM walking her dog. Anna’s best friend and co-owner of a local bakery, Lucy Leffingwell, last saw Anna at work the previous …show more content…

The unknown pills found at the scene is aspirin and it was discovered through a short process of identifying reactions between the suspected substances and indicators. The results that matched the substance at the scene was aspirin, which indicates that the substance at the scene is aspirin. The blood found at the scene is type B and the only two people involved with the crime who has type B blood is Anna and Alex. After the process of cutting DNA with restriction enzymes in the DNA Analysis lab, the results matched with Anna’s and proved that the blood and DNA is Anna’s. The hair that was found at the scene belongs to Anna. After looking at the hair’s medulla, the consistent line in the medulla matched with Anna’s, which proved that the hair belongs to Anna. Alex’s fingerprint was found at the scene. The pattern of the suspected fingerprint matched with Alex’s through the process of determining the finger’s ridge patterns. The shoeprints found at the scene is Anna’s and it was determined through the process of observing all the suspected victims shoeprint and Anna’s shoe print matched exactly with the ones found at the crime scene. Anna’s time of death was determined to be around 7:00AM. The test ran by the investigators shows that the lower the temperature is, the longer it will take for the body to cool. The Glaister equation was used to approximate Anna’s death. The blood

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