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Old 09-08-2011, 03:17 AM   #1
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It’s a story line straight out ofa CSI episode: Last April 26, a young woman comes home to her Queens, New York, apartment building from a weekend trip, heads upstairs, and goes right to sleep without seeing her roommate, Michelle. The next morning, she peeks into her roommate’s room to say hello and finds a horrific scene: Michelle’s lifeless body, ##########, bound to the bedpost by her hands. A kitchen knife sticks out from her neck. Her torso has been burned with a steam iron. The woman reportedly runs from the apartment and down the building’s three flights of stairs, screaming, &quot;She’s dead in the bed!&quot; The Crime Scene Unit of the New York City Police Department arrives to comb for clues and soon realizes there’s another reason, beyond the grisliness of the crime, that their investigation of this homicide will be far from routine: The victim, 24-year-old Michelle Lee, is one of their own. Michelle and her roommate both worked in the NYPD Crime Laboratory, where Michelle was a rookie criminologist analyzing evidence <a href="http://www.mbt-shoesky.com/"><strong>mbt サンダル</strong></a> in narcotics cases. She had started with the NYPD nine months earlier and was just reaching the goal she named in her high school yearbook: to work in forensics, a career now cut short by an unknown killer. The scene of Michelle’s death was disturbing, even to hardened homicide detectives&mdash;so twisted, in fact, that ultimately, investigators wondered whether it was extreme to the point of being staged by the killer, with the intent of throwing them off the trail. It was one of many indications that this murder investigation would be one in which insider forensic knowledge would come into play&mdash;knowledge that came very close to sending detectives in the wrong direction. Anatomy of a Crime Scene The full story of the investigation has not yet been told, because at press time, the case had not gone to trial. And while prosecutors have now charged a suspect with Michelle’s murder, he hasn’t been convicted. That means much of the evidence uncovered at the crime scene and in interrogations has been closely guarded by the NYPD. However, some details have leaked out or are in the public record, allowing the forensic experts Cosmo consulted to piece together some of the steps that led to an arrest. As with any violent crime, the medical examiner and members of the Crime Scene Unit first would have collected evidence at the scene, explains Michael Baden, MD, former New York City chief medical examiner and host of HBO’s Autopsy documentary series. That would involve photographing the scene and covering Michelle’s hands with bags to preserve trace evidence&mdash;things like hair, fiber, skin, and blood that might be caught under her fingernails during a struggle. Investigators also would have covered and later swabbed the kitchen knife used to murder Michelle <a href="http://www.mbt-shoesky.com/"><strong>mbt シューズ 激安</strong></a> for DNA and cut the material used to tie her to the bedpost, leaving any knots intact (they may contain fibers and skin cells). &nbsp;Personal items like a diary, computer, and cell phone&mdash;which can help iden-tfy potential suspects and a motive for the crime&mdash;were surely collected. &quot;Crime-scene investigation nowadays, with all the electronics involved, goes beyond the four walls ofthe room,&quot; says Dr. Baden. But the New York Daily News reported that, as it happened, one of the most important pieces of evidence found in Michelle’s room was as low-tech as it gets: diary entries mentioning a relationship with a man named Gary McGurk, a 23-year-old student at Lee’s alma mater, John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan. Detectives pulled him in for questioning, and on the evening of April 28, McGurk sat in the interview room A forensic expert says Gary McGurk (left), a forensic student himself, may <a href="http://enetwork.smkevii.edu.my/index.php?do=/public/account/bulletin/view_164798/"><strong>mbt shoes us footwear masai barefoot technology 棒 - Hegatrading.com</strong></a> have used insider tactics to throw off detectives investigating the brutal murder of Michelle Lee (right). of the NYPD’s 108th precinct and gave a long statement, some of which was later made public. Irish-born and scruffily good-looking, McGurk was close to earning a degree in forensic psychology, training designed to give insight into the mind of a murderer. Forensic experts familiar with the case say that McGurk’s statement to police reveals telltale signs of that training and suggest he tried using his knowledge to outsmart his interrogators
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