Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 B 47
Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 B 47
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STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES
SECOND
EDITION
Staging: Victim 1
The shooting had
been intended to look like an accident or a booby trap. A suicide was unlikely
because the gun would have been removed from the case.
Kevin Cavaness
was certain his brother, an experienced hunter, would know better than to grab
a gun by its barrel and pull on it. The detective as- signed to the case also
found this an unlikely sequence of events. The end of the case could have been
shot off, but the case also showed signs of wear elsewhere.
The piece of
evidence that discounted the attempt to stage an accident or booby trap was the
location of the cartridge. If the gun had been in the case when fired by the
coat hanger or the murderer’s finger, the spent cartridge would be inside the
case.

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