Discuss what information, specifically about timing, is provided by the state of the following searched crime scenes
a. A young woman is found dead near the front door of her home. She had not reported to work at 8 am. The morning newspaper is on the kitchen table next to a clean, empty plate. The decedent is found wearing pajamas and messy hair. Burned toast is found in the toaster.
b. A backpack and empty lunchbox belonging to a missing child is found on a couch in a mobile home owned by a 47-year-old single man with no family in the area. The backpack contains blank homework assigned to the child that day in school. The search reveals action movie posters, three video game systems, twenty-five video games, and drawers filled with candy bars.
a. The state of the scene suggests the young woman was killed in the morning hours before 8 am when the decedent was preparing for work. This is suggested by the pajamas, the day's paper having been brought in, and breakfast (or a portion of it) having been prepared.
b. The backpack and empty lunchbox suggest the objects were placed there after the child left school, as the lunch within the lunchbox had been eaten and homework was present but not worked on. The presence of objects which would appeal to children are out of place in the man's mobile home, and should lead to further investigation.
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