Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Real Crime Scene Investigations Explained | How CSI Solves Murder Cases
05 Apr 2025
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He was targeting sex workers and he would solicit services. He would then beat them near to death and then leave them. And we had had this probably maybe four to five times that we would find these women beaten nearly to death. I encounter people on generally the worst days of their lives. Nobody calls a crime scene investigator if their day's going well.
Right.
Right. And I don't encounter people that are happy to see me. If I'm lucky, the victims are living.
Hey, this is Matt Cox, and I am here with Alina Burrows, and she is the host of Crime Scenes Confidential. And she is an expert in forensic science. I've watched several of the episodes. You know, I mean, I thought they were really interesting, a little really kind of graphic, too. You know, like you really kind of get into. The whole thing. And I the one I thought was interesting.
Well, I mean, I guess it wasn't just. The forensics, but it was the fact that it seemed like the police got on to one of this is the guy that had like the furniture store. Yeah, it seems like they decided he was he was guilty and then they just stuck with that.
Yeah, that's a common thing that we see in some investigations. And that's why I fell in love with crime scene investigation forensic evidence, because it doesn't have a bias. It doesn't have an interest in a particular person, especially when we look at some older cases before forensic science really had a chance to evolve.
You know, what you see is police get there, they make up their mind about something and they kind of run with it because, like I said, depending on the time, there may or may not have been forensic science that could come about with blood test results that supported one way or another. And that's the scary thing when we look at cases that are a bit older.
That's part of the reason why Crime Scene Confidential exists. We want to look at cases under the eye of 2023 and look at decisions that were made. You know, the stakes are pretty high here. We have people that are still in prison that are saying that they're innocent.
And if they were put in prison in a time in which we didn't have forensic capabilities that we have today, do they still need to be there?
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