Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 103
Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 103
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STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES
SECOND
EDITION
Staging. Staging
is crucial if the offender is using the litigation strategy. The offender must
make it appear as if the family member or close associate was a victim of
either a random killer or a company’s faulty product. For the first set of
circumstances, there could be other random victims selected to give the
appearance of an indiscriminate saboteur at work. The other situation may
require the death to look like an accident (for example, a defective automotive
part or short-circuited power tool that causes the fatal accident). Fire started
by apparently faulty wiring that burns a house down with the victim inside is
another illustration of a staged product tampering. The initial impression
derived from the crime scene of a staged tampering homicide ranges from violent
death to a medical emergency of some kind, without any obvious indicators of a
homicide.
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