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The venerable CSI franchise is officially coming back. CBS has given a straight-to-series order to CSI: Vegas, a sequel to the mothership CSI series, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, for the 2021-21 season.

Headlined by returning CSI stars William Petersen and Jorja Fox, joined by new series regulars Paula Newsome, Matt Lauria, Mel Rodriguez and Mandeep Dhillon, CSI: Vegas hails from writer Jason Tracey, CBS Studios and Jerry Bruckheimer TV. Also coming back is another fan favoriteCSI cast member, Wallace Langham, reprising his role as David Hodges.

With CSI: Vegas, the most watched drama series of the 21st century, CSI, opens a new chapter in Las Vegas, the city where it all began. Facing an existential threat that could bring down the Crime Lab, a brilliant team of forensic investigators must welcome back old friends and deploy new techniques to preserve and serve justice in Sin City.

Newsome is believed to be playing Maxine, the new head of the Vegas Crime Lab Lauria is said to be playing Josh, a Level III CSI who is typically the lead investigator on cases, and has a knack for crime scene reconstruction. Rodriguez is reportedly playing Hugo who took over as Head Medical Examiner three years ago. I hear Dhillon plays Allie, a young level II CSI, an immigrant who followed her dreams to Las Vegas. Petersen and Fox will reprise their roles as Gil Grissom and Sara Sidle, respectively.

Twenty-one years ago, we launched CSI and watched in awe as this new cinematic series launched an entire genre and became a groundbreaking juggernaut that still has global resonance today, said Kelly Kahl, President, CBS Entertainment. We are thrilled to welcome the next generation of forensic criminalists to the CSIbrand and unite them with the legendary characters from the past who we still love, including the extraordinary Billy Petersen and Jorja Fox. Crimefighting technology has advanced dramatically over the last several years, and combined with classic CSI storytelling, we cant wait to watch this new CSIteam do what they do best: follow the evidence.

As Deadline revealed last February when the potential CSI followup was in preliminary stages of deal-making and development, the original idea was for the event series to debut in October 2020, marking the 20th anniversary of the mothership series premiere. That plan was thwarted by the coronavirus pandemic-related production shutdown.

Tracey, who serves as showrunner, executive produces CSI: Vegas with JBTVs Bruckheimer, Jonathan Littman and KristieAnne Reed as well as CSI creator Anthony E. Zuiker, franchise showrunners Carol Mendelsohn, Ann Donahue, and CSI: Cyber alum Craig ONeill. Peterson and his long-time producing partner Cynthia Chvatal, who exec produced the original series, also are executive producers on CSI: Vegas. Uta Briesewitz will direct the first episode and serve as executive producer (pilot episode only). ViacomCBS Global Distribution Group is distributing internationally.

Im excited to be bringing back the CSIfranchise to all our fans who have been so loyal to us for all these years, said Jerry Bruckheimer. And to be back in Las Vegas where it all started over 20 years ago makes it even more special. Weve enjoyed working on this project with CBS and look forward to welcoming back Billy, Jorja and Wallace as they join a new group of talented actors in CSI: Vegas.

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation followed a team of crime-scene investigators for the Las Vegas Police Department as they used physical evidence to solve murders. The original cast included Petersen, Marg Helgenberger (who is currently a series regular on another CBS series, All Rise), Fox, George Eads, Gary Dourdan and Paul Guilfoyle. Petersen was succeeded by Laurence Fishburne as CSIs leading man. He in turn, was followed by Ted Danson. Petersen left CSI in Season 9. Fox departed as a series regular in Season 8. She remained a recurring guest star for the next four seasons, rejoining the cast as a series regular at the start of Season 12. Langham joined CSI as a recurring in Season 3 and was promoted to series regular in Season 8 for the remainder of its run.

Created by Zuiker, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation bowed out in 2015 after 15 seasons, having launched a $1 billion franchise for CBS that spanned four series; CSI and spinoffs CSI: Miami, CSI: New York and CSI: Cyber. They are now joined by a fifth with CSI: Vegas. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation was the most watched drama series in the world for seven years between 2006 and 2016.

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A career in criminal justice can lead you to many roles along the path of crime scene investigation. If youre interested in earning your criminal justice degree online, Campbellsville University offers three options.

Crime scene examination is complex. How officers approach the crime scene of a burglary differs from that of a homicide. Indoor, outdoor and conveyance crime scenes all have unique aspects to consider.

Still, these seven steps of a crime scene investigation remain no matter where or what the crime. (1) Find out how these steps apply to any investigation.

Its better to establish a larger scene than needed. (2)

Outdoor crime scenes are more vulnerable to loss due to the elements. (3)

It is imperative to follow proper procedures for collection so that no evidence is destroyed or contaminated.

By following those simple steps and getting the right education, youll be ready to join the field as a crime scene investigator!

A career in criminal justice can lead you to many roles along the path of crime scene investigation, from the front lines to evidence processing. If youre interested in earning your online criminal justice degree, Campbellsville University offers three options, including an online A.S. in Criminal Justice, an online B.S. in Criminal Justice Administration and an online M.S. in Justice Studies.

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CAPE CORAL

Lisa Lansky lives for forensics.

Her Cape Coral police lab is her second home and has been for two decades.

Lansky is a forensics specialist with the Cape Coral Police Department. Her job is to collect evidence, analyze crime scene samples and piece together what happened during a crime and how.

I like mysteries so its more of the puzzle aspect that attracts me to the field, Lansky said. I like working with the evidence on the physical aspects of it and finding out scientifically what can be discovered about any crime.

Her team is small, made up of only six people, but they make a big impact. And theyre mostly women.

In fact, lots of women go into crime scene investigations.

Our forensics unit is civilian and because of that, I think that actually leads to a lot more women in this field where as with law-enforcement it is very male-dominated, said Jaclyn Fordham, also a forensics specialist with Cape Coral police.

Thats where Detective Jazmin Correa comes in. Correa is a 16-year veteran of the department. During that time, shes watched the number of women in crime scene investigation grow.

It makes me feel good because I feel like yes everybody sees it as a mans job but in reality, its a job, Correa said. I can do it. You can do it. Either one of you can do it. Its just a matter of applying yourself.

Women make up about 13% of the Cape Coral Police Departments sworn police officers.

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Authorities say the child is the victim of a homicide.

PARMA, Ohio A 5-year-old boy was killed Thursday afternoon in Parma and police there say they have a 31-year-old man in custody in connection with the homicide.

Police say the incident occurred in the 4700 block of Russell Avenue, and add the suspect is believed to be the child's father. The city's detective bureau and crime scene investigation units were both on scene, and they say the case remains under investigation.

"Theres just no words for it," said Donald White who lives nearby the home. "Its just heartbreaking."

White released footage from his Ring doorbell camera showing police arriving at the scene and appearing to confront the suspect, and an unknown "popping" noise can be heard. Another video from a passerby's cell phone shows a man being taken away on a gurney, but details on what happened remain unclear. Footage from both clips can be seen in the player above.

Neighbors came together to set up a memorial in front the home in memory of the young boy.

"I wanted to bring something a little 5-year-old would like," said Parma resident Amanda Bohach. "So I got him a stuffed bunny and some colorful flowers."

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A lot of crime scene investigation practices can be traced back to one guy.

Edward Oscar Heinrich worked about 100 years ago and developed many forensics techniques still used today. He's not very well known, but when Kate Winkler Dawson ran across him in an encyclopedia about crime, she was intrigued.

Dawson is a senior lecturer in broadcast journalism at UT Austin and host and creator of the historical true crime podcast Tenfold More Wicked. Her book about Heinrich, American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics and the Birth of American CSI, is now out in paperback.

Dawson says Heinrich was the first to bring geology and entomology the study of insects to the investigation of criminal cases. And ballistics was "really kind of where he put his stamp."

But, Dawson says, Heinrich also embraced some techniques that later proved less reliable, including fingerprint, blood spatter and handwriting analysis.

Listen to the interview above or read the transcript below to learn more about Heinrich's innovations.

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KUT's Jennifer Stayton: How did you first hear about Edward Oscar Heinrich? He doesnt have a very high profile in history.

Kate Winkler Dawson: At about page 100 of this massive 800-page book [an encyclopedia about crime], there was this great picture of this train that had been blown to smithereens by too much dynamite. It was this botched train robbery in 1923 in Oregon. But I just started skimming the story, and I found in there a line about Edward Oscar Heinrich, who was this forensic scientist.

This was the case that gave him the nickname America's Sherlock Holmes. It described these techniques that he used which just seemed like a never-ending list of disciplines that he used in forensics to take one pair of overalls found at the scene of this deadly train robbery and pick off 20 to 25 different clues, whereas the federal agents who had looked at the overalls before found one clue and that was it.

He had, I think in some ways inadvertently, acquired all of these skills. He was a chemistry major in college. He learned about all kinds of sciences. And so all of this came together to sort of make him realize that he really could help this field that was really emerging at the time.

What are some of the things that he did and practices that he established that are still used today?

Forensic geology was introduced by him in a criminal case in America in 1929. He also introduced forensic entomology, which is the way little bugs arrive to a corpse. Blow flies come first and then beetles without getting too graphic.

He also helped develop ballistics. And this was really kind of where he put his stamp. There's a case where he has invented this technique to photograph two bullets side by side.

When you fire a bullet through a gun, the barrel of the gun leaves a marking on the bullet that is unique to that gun. It's almost like a bullet fingerprint. A forensic scientist will take a bullet from a victim or from the wall, something that they know happened during the crime, and then they can fire a bullet through the suspect's gun and compare the markings.

We could see the two bullets side by side through one microscope because the comparison microscope had just been invented, but you couldn't photograph it.

So when he developed this photograph, which was the first of its kind, it sort of stunned the jury. And it's a technique that's still used today that seems simple, but he was able to alter it for other microscope companies and really move this along. And it's been very important ever since.

There were some practices, though, that kind of fell out of favor, that did not endure, that did not prove to be as useful. Talk about some of those.

He was a big fan of fingerprints. And as you'll see in the Fatty Arbuckle case, which is the silent film star who went on trial for manslaughter and assault for supposedly killing an actress who was at a party of his in 1921, Heinrich used Fatty Arbuckles fingerprint in order to try to prove that he was guilty.

Fingerprinting is not considered accurate unless you have a really, really clean print. And even then, it has variables that you can't control.

But I think blood spatter is probably one of his biggest what I would consider a failure. He introduced the first case in 1925. And in the big case you see in the book, the story of David Lamson, who went on trial for killing his wife. You see that blood spatter played a huge role. It is just too squishy as a science.

He also loved handwriting analysis, which is also considered a junk science. Your handwriting can change based on medication you're taking. So, being able to predict somebody's handwriting and match it is something that is less than reliable.

Tell us a little bit about his personality. What kind of guy was he?

His public persona was arrogant, very confident, very controlled, sort of my way or the highway. Not a jerk, except to arrogant competitors who were constantly trying to steal work from him or undermine him on the stand. He did not like uneducated police officers. He felt like all police officers should have, at a minimum, a college education. And so he would frequently scoff at cops and not really care what their opinion was.

He would speak like a chemist would speak to a colleague to the jury, and the jury just was clueless. They had no idea what he was talking about. And that made him less credible at the beginning of his career.

When he would then start solving these incredible cases, he started gaining notoriety because he was getting results, and so cops believed him more; juries believed him more. But juries still just seem flummoxed with whatever his explanation was. But because it was Edward Oscar Heinrich they would side with him, but they still looked confused.

And so privately, this just tortured him. He felt like he was being misunderstood. He felt like he wasn't doing a good job translating what he spent so much time in the lab doing.

He in his private life was as meticulous, if not more meticulous and quite frankly, controlling. As his sons got older, he became more controlling of their lives. He didn't seem to be particularly controlling over his wife. But in these letters, he would dictate to his sons the kind of jobs they should have, the kind of women they should marry.

All of this adds up to a man who is personally insecure because sometimes in the press, he's sort of called out. He was such a controlled person in his public life and in his personal life, and it really affected his relationships.

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