A John Doe Mystery

The officers used the battering ram to break the door down and when Officer Dabbie walked into the room on the other side he saw the body of a man on the floor next to an upturned chair.  Blood spilled from the wound in his head and a gun lay on the floor next to his hand.

The scene was secured and the SOC team sent in to investigate.  Where the man was obviously sat at the table there was an ashtray with a few stubbed out cigarettes lying in the ashes, an almost empty pack of Marlboros, a lighter and an old fashioned tape recorder.

Elements of the scene were tagged and photographed in their positions as they were found.  Office Dabbie pressed the play button on the tape machine and heard the full suicide declaration and when the voice had finished there was a gun shot.  Officer Dabbie said to the room, “Everyone make sure you do your jobs properly, tag everything correctly and get it all catalogued.”

Officer Dabbie pressed a speed dial button on his mobile phone and spoke to the murder team at his station and called them in to investigate of the murder of a John Doe and gave the address.  He waited at the scene and made sure it wasn’t contaminated, the murder team turned up and he handed it all over to them.