My husband is a C.S.I. in D.C. and has been for about 10 years now, and it isn’t like the TV show C.S.I. at all. On that show, they have the C.S.I. gathering all the evidence, going to the morgue AND doing the investigation (it’s TV so all crimes get solved).
In the real world, the C.S.I. gathers the evidence and they do visit the morgue WITH an investigator (sex unit, homicide, criminal investigator – the crime determines which investigator goes) who is actually responsible for putting it all together so to speak. Of course they inter-mingle but a C.S.I. isn’t actually the case solver, it is a conglomeration of all the components that solve crimes.
I don’t watch C.S.I. at all now, because the first season, I believe it was one of the first few episodes had C.S.I. going into a homicide scene and getting blown up by a terrorist attack, just a bit too close to home for me.
It isn’t too difficult to find out facts of the case that haven’t been released to the public, especially a case that is 10 years old. We live in an arrogant world and even the police will brag about what they know about a case, then they tell two friends………
I hope this is a means to an end of a tragic story that really has gone on way too long unsolved. Imagine living your life knowing your child was killed and never seeing the perpetrator brought to justice? I can only think of one worse thing than that and that is having your child stolen and not knowing if they are dead or alive.