crime scene activity

 Put together and working on my crime scene. Just finished the rough sketch of my crime scene. Here is the 'background', if you will, of my case.
Case # : 2012-091-4
Location: 1355 Golden Partridge Pkwy
Date: 09/14/2012   2:56pm
BURGLARY
Investigator: J.Miller 
(I know this  is supposed to be on our sketch, it's on mine but it may not be visible, due to scanning properties)
Also my legend is on my rough sketch but due to MPE (machine production error), my legend is as goes:
LEGEND 
O- shoe prints
X- hand prints
[]- knee impressions
A- broken window, apparent point of entry, with bloody shards
B- shoe prints with tracked in dirt
C- Bloody hand print
D- dumped out first aid kit, with 2 band-aids missing
E- empty rifle case, with three hair samples

Rough Sketch of crime scene

I made this crime scene more visually amusing, there are footprints and hand prints everywhere to follow a path, 100% of the time there will be  no white prints like this unless they are cast, which i didn't have time to create.

The 'effected' rooms were the downstairs bathroom, and the office that is connected to the bathroom with a door.

 I have found the point of entry, a broken window. Along with the beginning of the footprints, which had tracked in dirt, presumably from outside.

 point of entry

the initial foot prints with

tracked in dirt

I noticed blood on one of the cabinet doors under the sink, presumably the perpetrator's blood, and an empty first aid kit strewn all over the floor, with two empty band-aid wrappers entangled in the mess.

 bloody hand print on door

Empty first aid kit with band aid wrappers

I noticed the door to the next room was open and found a hand print on the wall where the perp used it to balance himself/herself when the door was being opened. I found more dirt and footprints leading into the office as well.

hand print on bathroom wall

footprints leading into the office in the next room

Another hand print was found on a lamp in this room, assuming the perp turned on the lights to see better, according to the homeowners, this room is very dark with no light s on.

hand print on lamp 

The trail of footprints led to the corner of the room, where there was an open rifle case but no rifle. I had spoken with the male homeowner he says it contained his hunting rifle and he took it out of the closet and put it in the corner of the room to make sure it was clean and ready to use. He stated the type of rifle was a Thompson/ Center  Triumph Muzzle loading rifle, along with a box of .50 caliber ammunition. There were some hairs that were not the homeowners. They were black in color as the homeowners have grey hairs. I noted this and collected them, as evidence. Also, in front of the empty rifle case, I noticed some deep impressions in the rug, possibly where the perp knelt to open the rifle case.

Empty rifle case with possible knee impressions

I had asked the homeowners if anyone had known that the rifle was going to be coming out of 'hiding', and that he would be cleaning it. The male homeowner stated the only people that knew were his hunting buddies. He stated that it could be possible if someone saw it or over heard him talking to one of his buddies about getting ready to go hunting.

I have, in my investigation, retrieved samples of hair and finger prints from both the male and female homeowners. I have found fingerprints, blood and hair that I am sending to the lab to be tested. Just by visual  purpose, the hair is not a match. But the lab will determine that further.

I have included evidence photos as well. I have taken fingerprints, glass shards, hair, and dirt samples. Some are easier to see then others. I have included how they are packaged (specifically for the dirt, because it is invisible to the naked eye).

The first item are the homeowner's fingerprints, since their fingerprints are on everything in the house, this is to exclude their fingerprints from those of the perp's.

Homeowner fingerprints

This is hard to see but I tried to make it easy but it still didn't work. Here are some white hairs collected from the homeowner.

Next, I will go from one room to the other. I will start with the evidence that I collected in the bathroom, and then I will show the evidence that was collected in the home office.

Evidence of dirt from shoes with a druggist fold

Glass shards with blood from the broken window

Next, in the home office, I processed and collected fingerprints, hair, and more dirt. Here are some evidence from that room.

Fingerprint from lamp in home office

Black hairs, which clearly did not match homeowners but waiting for final determination from the lab, by the rifle case.

(Some of the evidence is hard to see, but if you look closely at the bottom of the bag, you will see outlines of black hairs, not so much as in the homeowner's hairs.)