this, more or lessDude the real world isn't CSI. I know a few people in the field and I asked them and they said no they'd never check any of that if the bad guy was dead and the living witness was the good guy.
these cases where police bust out extremely expensive, extremely trained forensics experts AND go through all of the trouble and cost to do deep dive forensics are few and far between. departments do NOT do CSI style investigations unless they A) have access to that kind of tech (most departments do not- especially in the era of DeeFund) and B) are really, really suspicious. it is, in fact, still pretty easy to get away with murder in this day and age - just STFU.
im of course not advocating anyone murder anyone, or anything remotely close to it.
all of that said, you dont get to pick whether your case gets extra scrutiny or not. so if anything about your particular story makes any of the investigators involve suspicious, they may very well make the call to their state's crime lab or even the FBI for a more enhanced forensic investigation. its not like the technology doesnt exist, its just a finite resource that only gets used when appropriate.
anyway, just came to agree w Gunbuggy - for some reason this broad public misperception that CSI style forensic investigation is common and endemic is annoying to me. sure, itd be nice if we truly did employ those kinds of resources for every serious crime.... we do not.
ETA - by "we" i mean society. that read like i was saying "we," "me," "im a cop." i am not.
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