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Originally Posted by boneyard1962
If you say so. A murder happened not far from where I live in a trailer. That crime scene was off limits to family and press for weeks.
Maybe they did a good job and were fast and had all they evidence they needed. Maybe it wasn't. The real question is why allow the press inside to begin with? What value did the press bring?
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I don't know what happened with the crime scene near your home. In a homicide crime scene there might be blood splatter pattern interpretation, fingerprint work, trajectory studies, etc. those all take time, but unless you have to call in help from another agency or state DOJ for assistance it generally wouldn't take more than 2 or 3 days. It also could be that they finished with the crime scene and turned it over to the coroner who has a legal obligation to determine who the next of kin and rightful heir is and then they release the property to that person.
There was no crime committed in this house and from the photos it appeared small and sparsely furnished. I'm sure they collected what they felt would help them in their investigation. The FBI is pretty darned good at crime scene investigation, I wouldn't second guess them. Oh yeah and they didn't allow the press in, they turned the property over to the landlord who got paid $1,000 from Inside Edition to let them inside, I have no idea if he got more money from the other media that showed up after that.