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Crime Scene Reconstruction Case Study

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The case of Gareth Williams, an MI6 (British Secret Intelligence Service) agent specialized in decoding, was found decomposed and unclothed inside a sports bag in his bath, over a week of his death.
Following over a year of investigating a potential DNA profile, the LGC realized that the profile was a contaminant and belonged to one of its forensic scientists, subsequently apologizing to the agent’s family for the typographical error (Anon, 2012).
It was crucial to determine whether he was dead or alive when he was locked in the bag and if he could have padlocked himself in. Experts evidence exposed that it was highly improbable for him to have locked himself in the bag from the inside (Anon, 2012). However, Webb (2015) reported that a specialist …show more content…

Williams’s representative (Anon, 2012), it was plausible that suspects broke into the flat through skylight windows as several of the items left by the forensic team was moved (Stanton, 2015). This could have been done to conduct their own investigation or to cover up what truly happened.
The investigation terminated with a probable false allegation that he locked himself in the bag either as a form of autoerotic asphyxiation or suicide.

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