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Article: WVU students investigate forensic evidence: Mock crime scene in old house offers hands-on training
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- April 13, 2004
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MORGANTOWN - In the corner of the damp, dark basement, the Pioneer
widescreen television connects to cameras catching mischief
throughout the red brick house. Unfortunately, the crime scene
investigators assigned to this beat cannot use them. They are college
students.
While most university students are sleeping off Friday night,
members of Mark Neal and Richard Ingram's Forensic Mock Crime Scene
class reported to their classroom - the basement - at 10 a.m. on a
recent Saturday.
Ingram, the assistant chief of detectives for the city of
Charleston, worked with crime scenes for 13 years. Neal is a
lieutenant with the West Virginia State Police.
West Virginia University has spent the past ...