Photo of crime scene where Nicole Brown Simpson was found lying dead at her home with multiple stab wounds.1994
Vanessa West. "Crime Scene Photos." Crime Scene Photos. Sept. 19, 2012
This photo shown above is of the crime scene of the
Goldman-Simpson murder in which the person implicated in the killings was OJ Simpson,
a famed football star. The picture
depicts a bloody walkway in which the victim, Nicole Brown-Simpson is found at
the end slumped on the ground in a pool of blood. Her friend Ronald Goldman, who was also
killed at the scene, lay nearby. The images
captured from this scene were known for the large amounts of blood from the
victims being stabbed multiple times.
Caylee Anthony's remains shown in court on a monitor, displaying where she was found.
Joe Burbank "Pictures: Caylee Anthony Crime Scene Photos" Orlando Sentinel June 9, 2011.
One of the most heart-wrenching murders of recent times was
the murder of Caylee Anthony. The
two-year-old was thought to have been killed by her mother Casey Anthony but
she was later acquitted. The image above
is of a crime scene photo being shown to the jury during the 2011 trial of Casey
Anthony. As we discussed in class, certain images containing disturbing content
of children have been digitally altered to conceal the detail of the child’s
skull. In earlier times it could have
been argued that evidence such as this would not be presented due to the fact
it has artificial manipulations due to the pixilation (Mnnokin, 89). An
argument could be made that the image could be altered to represent a
completely different set of remains.
Sandy Hook Elementary School front entrance where the shooter opened fire with automatic weapons, photo credit Danbury State's Attorney's Office.
William Earl "Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting Photos." Hollywood Life. Dec 14, 2012
Even more tragic than the death of one child are the deaths
of multiple children. In December 2012,
Adam Lanza, a 20 year-old troubled young man, shot and killed 20 children along
with 6 educators at Sand Hook Elementary in Connecticut. The crime scene images
released from this case provide a surreal feeling of multiple firearms found on
or near the gunman. The photo above is
an image of the front entrance to the elementary school where the gunman shot
his way through glass panes and doors.
Not only were the door windows shot out but the adjacent walls as well
indicating multiple shots in multiple directions.
Photo of blood splatter from a crime scene, the blood spread as if it were a painting on a canvas.
Gruesome Crime Scene Photos
Gruesome Crime Scene Photos
In most cases the crime scene photographs have to be curated
and decided upon whether they should be admissible. In an article of the
Louisiana Law Review, they dealt with a case, State v. Morgan (1947), in which
the photos were admitted into the case but deemed an error because they added
no extra value to the case. The
defendant’s team argued that the photos of the crime were introduced in order
to create a prejudice against the defendant.
The image above is a image found on a site with a few gruesome images
but it is used to show that sometimes the content of what’s on the image can
seal a verdict because it can strike an emotional chord with jurors therefore,
creating a bias from what they’ve just seen..
Some of the photos being circulated from crimes or
atrocities nowadays make it seem as though it is “a perverse competition to show the world, and each
other, how ruthlessly barbaric they can be,” (Linfield). The world is becoming desensitized to
everything at a more rapid pace.
Remains of a hispanic woman on a bench shot by the DC Sniper in 2002, Bill O’Leary, The Washington Post. Bill O'Leary "Washington DC Sniper Ten Years Later." The Darkroom Exploring Visual Journalism from the Baltimore Sun Sept 28, 2012
The photo above was taken when a Hispanic woman was shot and
killed by the Beltway Snipers, John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo. These particular crime scene photographs from
these cases generally gave little indication of how the crime was committed
since they were killed from a distance.
The crime scenes occasionally had tarot cards left for police to find as
calling cards. It was later discovered later the reason for no bullet casings
or other physical evidence of a gunman in the immediate vicinity was that the
shooters were within the confines of a vehicle shooting out of the trunk.
Joe Clayton's photography kit which includes a Nikon D100 to photograph a crime scene.
Layton, Julia. "How Crime Scene Investigation Works." HowStuffWorks. Dec 2, 2005
The
photographic technologies used in the more modern crime scene investigations
usually deal with a high quality DSLR cameras with a manual override in case
one needs to adjust settings to optimize the potential photo they are going to
take. The crime scene photographers also
usually pack a tripod for stability, a flash that can be removed off of the
camera, and a variety of lenses. Cell
phone cameras or point and shoot cameras are used only when conditions of the
scene are affected by the weather and immediacy is preferred. For example, if it is raining outside and a
photograph of a footprint is needed, the photographer would need to document it
a lot quicker if he didn’t have time to choose the proper lens or flash.
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