Had an old friend who was in WW2. His estate auctioned his belongings. I bought a box of his old stuff. He was a photographer in that war. Included was a Crash Pass to allow him entry into airplane crash sites. So in 1944 they had ways to keep people out of scenes that needed investigation.Paladin wrote: ↑Thu Jan 18, 2024 4:27 pm Report shows the crime scenes were contaminated:
https://cops.usdoj.gov/uvaldeObservation 4: Body-worn camera (BWC) video captures officers walking into the crime scene without an investigative purpose or responsibility in the immediate aftermath of the incident. Furthermore, in the days that followed, crime scene preservation was compromised, and the crime scene team had to continually stop and start their important work when non-investigatory personnel entered the hallway and classrooms 111/112 for the purpose of viewing the scene.648
648 CIR Fact Finding.
Recommendation 4.1: Leaders must respect the integrity of the crime scene and only access it with a declared and documented legitimate purpose. Crime scenes need to be held without contamination until completed. The crime scene team should be permitted to do their methodical work without continuous interruptions by VIPs who want to enter the crime scene but have no probative need to do so.
Observation 5: The crime scene at the car wreck was washed out by rain prior to the collection of any evidence. The FBI offered to process the truck and warned of the rain coming, suggesting they move the truck to a secure and dry location. They also offered to cover the truck with a tarp. These offers were rebuffed by TXDPS leadership.
Recommendation 5.1: Investigative teams must properly assess weather conditions and the timing of investigative activities—particularly evidence collection—that must be conducted outside in the elements.
A friend said they read the parents were not allowed to see or identify their children. It was done by DNA. So they could not be with their dead child for what a week. So very sad.