Elements of a Crime - Criminal Investigation

Concepcion 1
Joseph Concepcion
Vincent Petrecca
Criminal Investigation
11 April, 2012
Elements of a crime

I the lead detective just arrived at a crime scene in which I was dispatched to a break in that led to Murder on the 2300 block of S. Keeler Ave. My first objective is preserving the people on the crime scene. All individuals must be preserved as meticulously as any other evidence. My second objective is to identify and to examine the victim. I will then search for any evidence with in and out the perimeter. Last but not least is to identify the suspect.

As I walk into the victims house there was a black purse on top of a coffee table next to the stairs that leads upstairs in which the victim was killed. While I approach the coffee table I happen to notice a driver license and a pair of keys next to the purse. I had the driver license and the pair of keys bagged up into the evidence bag. I then proceeded to head upstairs to examine the victim. Looking at the victim is now identified as a female and it shows that the intruder had hit the victim with a blow to the back of the head causing trauma to the brain. The Victims face was covered in blood.
Due to the amount of blood covering her face we were unable to match her identity to the driver license found. While examining the victim I had noticed a piece of her nail was chipped off. I will now take a DNA sample from underneath the victims nail for examination of DNA as well as a sample of her blood.
Concepcion 2

I would now tour the crime scene and perimeter for evidence. While looking around the room there was a trail of dotted blood leading towards the window. The window happens to be three quarter of an inch open. I then had the forensics check for finger prints on the window, window seal, doors, stairwell banister etc. As I am walking around the house everything looks as if it was normal. There was no force of entry. It looks as if the female victim knew the intruder. I walk outside to look for more evidence. The victim’s car happened to be park on the driveway located on the east side of the building. So far it doesn’t look like a robbery. I then approached south of the building in which the window of the victims room is facing. I had located another trail of dotted blood leading towards the alley where it ended. There was a tire mark heading west of the alley. We then search the alley and we found a pair of bloody shoes, size ten and a billy club in one of the dumpster’s six houses down from the victim’s house. It would now be added for evidence and send in to the lab for DNA examination. One of the other detectives came up to me and showed me a box of unopened letters in which the sender was Fred Tarara and the address was from the Correctional Due Page County Jail. Now we have a lead in which the suspect could be. All evidence is now being transported for examination and we will now contact the Correctional Due Page County Jail for further information. “One week later” The female victim was identified as Jenny A. Molina, 35 years old. Who once was married to Fred Tarara. Fred Tarara was in jail for brutally assaulting his
Concepcion 3 ex-wife when she had filed for divorce. He was then sentence for five years and was released two weeks before Jenny A. Molina was murdered. Fred Tarara was then found by the Sheriff’s Department driving a ford expedition and was pulled over for passing a red light and brought in for questioning. Fred Tarara was then mandated to a DNA testing and it came out to be a match to the DNA from the crime scene. All evidence such as (DNA, shoes, Billy club, and tire marks) puts Fred Tarara in the scene. Fred Tarara’s motive was to get back at Jenny A. Molina for testifying against him in court and he did five years in prison.