Homicide crimes occur to people who are unaware that they are the target of a criminal individual. Most of these crimes happen in homes and often results in death of the victims. Homicide crimes are mostly committed to people-by-people who are close to them or share a certain relationship. Mostly the perpetrators are people known to the victims. This paper will show I intend to conduct my interviews on the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Ruth Nelson and their daughter Elizabeth.
I intend to prepare for the interviews by making myself conversant with the surrounding area around which the crime took place. By making sure am aware of all the streets and households in the crime scene, I will then focus my attention to all the residents of the area. This is in an effort to determine the prior crime records of all the residents. This I will do by going through all the police files and identifying all the people who has at one time or another been booked for an offence no matter how minor it was. These people if any will be my primary focus when I start the interviewing process. I will then focus my attention to crime scene. The crime scene where will be focusing is the house of Mr. and Mrs. Nelson. At the crime scene, I will be looking for the small bit of give away evidence that might bring me closer in nabbing the perpetrator of the crimes. I intend then to deal with all the misinformation that might have happened. This is through getting first hand information from the scene and analyzing it with what had been given to come up with a conclusive report about the homicide and how I will use the information in interviewing process.
My next assignment will be to formulate the questions that I will use. Having a ready set of questions is important in conducting a successful interview. (Palmiotto, 1999). The questioning will occur at a time when all the residents are in their homes. This is in a bid to get a clear picture of the real events. By each residents describing what he or she was doing at the time the crime was happening I would be able to come up with a conclusive report. This will be based on the verbal and non-verbal communication of the interviewee. Because of convenience and the need for a desired effect, I will conduct the interviews on the streets and from the homes. This is in line to the close proximity to the scene and the available resources.
I will then engage in the real questions and this I will do systematically. Starting with the individuals, I will have narrowed down on from the police records. The next will be those that are close to the victims.( Hakkanen-Nyholm, 2012). All the people who own dogs as pets will also be my prime interviewees. The questions I will dwell on comprise the relationship between those individuals and the victim. Financial status of my interviewees will also be in my line of questions. . (Palmiotto, 1999). This is in a bid to establish the motive. I will do this with an open type of questions where all my interviewees answer to the same questions. Employing the close-ended type of questioning will be also my tactic and each interviewee will answer to questions very different from the other interviewees.
Using an oblique approach in my questioning I intend to get the best information from the interviewees although the questions may not be directly connected to the issue at hand. I will do this to a selected number of interviewees. I will then employ the tactics of formal approach from the interviewees, where questions pertaining to the issue at hand will be asked. For any clarification on an issue, I intend to use informal methods in the interviews.
Through the interviews, I will be above board. I will be keen on contradicting information and be firm and ruthless to lying interviewees. I will be totally in control of the situations. I will be the one asking the questions and not the other way round.
Conclusion
At the end of the interviews, I will scrutinize all the information gathered from the interviewees. I will put all the contradicting pieces of information together and make my decision on those probable suspects who need further questioning.
References
Hakkanen-Nyholm, H., & Nyholm, J.-O. (2012). Psychopathy and law: A practitioner's guide. Malden, Mass: Wiley-Blackwell.
Palmiotto, M. (1999). Community policing: A policing strategy for the 21st century. Gaithersburg, Md: Aspen.
