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Virtual Crime Scene Analysis and Writing Incident Reports

  • June 12, 2025
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Instructor Highlight | Eligio Gandarilla 

Program Chair | Criminal Justice | Northwest Career College

 

Template: Crime scene investigation Example

Template: Crime Scene Timeline

Video: How Eligio helps student practice crime scene analysis 

 

Detailed Walkthrough

Hands-on practice is an important part of the instructional process, however this can be hard to achieve with the constraints of a typical classroom.  Eligio uses Lucidchart to help students get hands-on practice without leaving the classroom.  He starts by sending out a virtual crime scene created in Lucidchart.  

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Embedded within the Lucidchart virtual crime scene are hot-spots indicating the evidence markers throughout the crime scene.  Students look through each of the evidence markers and start to theorize what might have happened using the evidence provided.

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After the initial analysis, students work on completing their incident report and interactive timeline of events for the crime. 

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Comments

Chelsea H
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  • Lucidite
  • June 12, 2025

This is so cool!!


Ria S
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  • Lucid Legend Level 8
  • June 12, 2025

I quite like this template. It will be quite useful for my incident investigation reports.