Typical scenarios within this site’s subject: questions to ask, materials to prepare and points that can be examined.
Typical scenarios
If a single footprint’s toe points toward an exit, it may be used to claim that someone was leaving. In this hypothetical situation, a turning trackway survives on the floor with overlapping impressions, but the report’s diagram shows selected prints without their sequence or overall relation to the doorway.
Typical scenarios
Matching scratches on flat diagrams may depend on assumed body positions. Review a contact hypothesis by checking trace height above a shared reference plane, contacting shapes, and load, suspension and deformation effects.
Typical scenarios
Several breakage zones may make impact order seem obvious in an overview. Examine laminated glass by separating layers and crack endings, distinguishing damage introduced when the pane was removed from its original frame.
Typical scenarios
A similarly coloured fragment found near a damaged appliance is not necessarily part of its housing. A typical examination tests whether they once formed one object, preserving fracture edges and separating physical fit from generic material and shape similarities.
Typical scenarios
If a garment tears beside a seam, snagging or stretching may be proposed as explanations. Proximity to a seam alone does not establish how the damage formed.
Typical scenarios
If a damaged seal is discovered after transport while dispatch photographs show an apparently intact one, the first step is to establish that the same object is being compared. Its number, wire position, attachments and casing condition help test that connection. The next question concerns surviving damage features and changes introduced during removal, packaging or inspection. A broken seal alone does not describe the full sequence of access to the cargo.
