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3 Types of Evidence & How They’re Used For Investigations
Every time there’s an investigation conducted for a criminal case, evidence is required to uncover the truth. Investigators are responsible for seeking and collecting data that can be used to get more details about the case and determine who the culprit is.
Evidence exists in various forms. Even if a particular form of evidence isn’t allowed to be used in courts, investigators can still use it to get more insight into the case. Let’s take a look at three of the most popular types of evidence used in investigations.
3 Famous Cases Solved Through Digital Forensics
Digital forensics is a process often used in criminal investigations. It involves collecting digital evidence from various devices, tools, or infrastructures such as computers, mobile devices, emails, hard discs, and cloud storage systems.
Here are a few famous cases where digital forensics played a crucial role.
Mobile Forensics and the Jessica Chambers Case
The Jessica Chambers case was cold since 2014. The good people of Courtland, Mississippi, found themselves wondering just who killed 19-year-old Jessica Chambers.
The death of a young girl is almost always traumatic—more so when the death is clearly a homicide.
How Digital Forensics Sent a Killer Mom to Jail
Mikayla Munn had the classic tragic tale to tell: a poor mother loses her newborn. We are all, instinctively, inclined to sympathize with her and to feel for her. However, an investigation soon revealed that Munn had that within which passeth show.
And it was digital forensics that cracked the case.
Digital Forensics Problem-solving
In the world of digital forensics, often, the most challenging part of the process is getting to the data. You need to first acquire the data in order to analyze it completely and effectively. This is where problem-solving comes into play.
Problem-solving is an ever-evolving issue in the fields of computer forensics and mobile device forensics and will continue to be so as the industry progresses. The thing about problem-solving skills, though, is that they aren’t so much as taught as they are acquired over time with experience.
In this piece, we discuss what you need to know about problem-solving in computer and mobile device forensics. Let’s dive right into it.
Cellular Records Analysis: Going Beyond Location Data
When it comes to digital forensics, particularly mobile forensics, location data is typically what is sought after the most. This isn’t surprising considering the fact that it is the most pertinent with respect to a person’s whereabouts during an incident, as well as the timeframe for said incident. That said, there is definitely more to cellular records and its analysis than merely location data, or at least a lot more that’s ancillary to location data.
Going beyond location data provides a deeper level of analysis that can lend further validity to the records themselves, as well as any conclusions drawn from the analysis. Here’s a guide on the subject.