10/18/2023 0 Comments Flat stanley body outline![]() ![]() ![]() Not to mention that an outline wouldn't show anything useful about the body that a cursory visual examination wouldn't reveal. In reality, police procedure almost never requires a chalk outline - chalk is impractical, prone to weather-related erosion, and contaminates the crime scene with a foreign substance, which hampers an investigation or criminal proceeding at a later date. This is not to say that the police never draw around a body in Real Life. This practice died out as forensic evidence became more important and the media became less concerned about showing bodies. It seems to have come to be as a way of allowing the media in the inter-war years to film/photograph crime scenes without having to show the actual bodies. The practice was originally never part of actual police procedure after all, the standard explanation of needing to know where the body was after it is removed is laughable when taking photographs of crime scenes is standard practice. The real life history of the practice is not as clear cut as most would think. Ah, the chalk (or more rarely, tape) outline to indicate where the murder victim once was. ![]()
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