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Article: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATORS: WHO ARE THEY? NEW CLASS GIVES STUDENTS A CLUE.(News)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- March 20, 2005
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Byline: Susan Abram Staff Writer
VALENCIA - Under the cover of night, the ``investigators'' comb a darkened parking lot for clues.
In notebooks, they sketch out the scene the way it has been left for them: a spray can, a footprint, a body.
Don't touch it, they are told. Don't solve it. Just record it.
For the more than two dozen high school students in instructor John Mundell's crime scene investigation class, the exercise exposes the truths about a profession made glamorous in recent years by television.
It's about documentation and paperwork - lots of it, as opposed to fast cars and high-tech equipment, solving a crime and ...