How do modern day detectives search for clues?

Answer 1

Modern day detectives search for clues by:

1. OBSERVING the scene (without touching anything)
2. NOTING evidence
3. MARKING where evidence evidence
4. NOTING WHAT IS *NOT* PRESENT
5. DOCUMENTING the scene in photographs, diagrams, and written notes
6. having the Lab COLLECT the evidence
7. MENTALLY putting pieces / missing pieces together
8. TALKING TO witnesses
9. TALKING TO THE CORONER (if crime scene included a body)
10. THEORIZING
11. FOLLOWING THE EVIDENCE
12. DEVELOPING SUSPECTS
13. TALKING to SUSPECTS
14. DISCARDING THEORIES and developing NEW theories
15. Discarding prior suspects when ruled out
16. Ruling in key suspects
17. PUTTING TOGETHER THE PUZZLE
18. WORKING as a team
19. PRESENTING the theory and suspect(s) to the Prosecutor
20. ARRESTING / CHARGING SUSPECT(S) -- 19 & 20 likely overlap