CRIME SCENE

About the Book

Thousands of crimes happen in the United States every day. Some are violent crimes with the most serious outcome, and others are not so serious yet still traumatize its victims. Many of these crimes require a crime scene unit to process them in order for these crimes to be solved. Crime scene—it sounds like a violent place. What exactly does it mean? How big is it? What’s in it? Who’s in it? Is it dangerous? Should I take my family away? Why can’t they give us any information? I’m confused, worried, and scared. Why do they need so many people? Can anyone give us any answers? Processed—what does that mean, and what does it entail? Who are these people doing the processing, and what’s going on in there? What’s in all those cases they are carrying in? Why are they dressed like that? Why are there so many of them? Am I safe? Nobody is telling us anything, why?

About the Author

Born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised and educated in New Jersey, Gene Thatcher worked in several different fields before settling down in law enforcement in 1984. He is a navy veteran of the Vietnam War. He started working as a corrections officer before going to the Sheriff’s Office. After a short tour in the county courts, he was transferred to the Crime Scene Division where he stayed nearly twenty-two years until his retirement in 2010. During that length of time, he processed crime scenes and collected evidence from those scenes. The last eight years he worked primarily as a latent fingerprint examiner. He was the supervisor of the latent print examination section and crime scene supervisor until his retirement.