This was all the BCHS Forensic unit (Forensics class) knew as they headed towards the office to examine the crime scene. Students worked together as team to sketch/photograph the crime scene, take notes on all evidence found at the scene and to collect/bag the evidence.

Meanwhile, in another office at the school, another student was found dead. He died while trying to hack into the computer grading system. Was it murder or suicide? The Honors Forensics class had to examine this crime scene.

Both crime scenes were created by the Forensics students. Each was a “Murder Mystery Crime Scene”. Each of the Forensics sections created a cast of characters and a murder/suicide/accident scenario for the opposing section to analyze then reconstruct the crime. Then, the hard work came into play. Students had to use what they had learned about Forensics to decide what evidence would be left behind after such a crime. As a group, they had to fabricate all clues and create the scene.

Competition was intense. All students were sworn to secrecy about their section’s created crime scene. In addition to boasting rights, the section that won the contest (stumped the other section) would receive a class day to watch a CSI movie whereas the losing section was to have a writing assignment.

At the end of 1 class period for analysis of the crime scene, all evidence was turned over to the Forensics teacher Dr. Flavin. She tabulated the data for all of the correctly processed evidence. The next class period, the students were given a rough sketch of the crime scene, a written summary of the suspects and the tabulated data obtained from their evidence. Any evidence not handled correctly at the crime scene was lost. From the evidence, each student had to prepare a finished sketch of the crime scene and prepare an individual reconstruction of the crime.

Of all the students, only one, Sara Dupere correctly unraveled and reconstructed the crime.