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At the High School, Mrs. Irvings Forensics classes participated in a mock crime scene investigation.

Faculty and staff members participated as suspects, a witness, a judge, a district attorney, and a victim. The students collected evidence, sketched the crime scene, conducted experimental tests on all the evidence, questioned the witness and suspects, and met with a district attorney to get a search warrant for the suspects classrooms. They then used seized evidence to compare to the crime scene evidence. The students then wrote a report over all their findings and served an arrest warrant.

I want to extend a huge thank you to all of the staff members who participated in the forensics crime scene investigation, said Catherine Irving. Suspect Leah Hoy was correctly identified as the perpetrator of the crime by one of the two classes. She was put through a great deal of physical and mental torment as the investigators stayed hot on her trail. Thank you for putting up with them! Thank you to Leah Hoy, Amanda Foster, Courtney Davis, and Vicki McClure for making great suspects and really keeping them on the run as you all seemed guilty during the questioning!

Thank you to Ky Buck for sitting in as District Attorney and speaking to them about the laws of crime scene investigations as well as helping them determine what evidence they can use or not use. Thank you to Phyllis Cody for acting a judge to sign the search warrants for our suspects classrooms. Thank you to Whitney McIntire, Heath Roach, and Jennifer Perdue for helping out as a witness. You helped make them ALL look guilty! Thank you to Tim Gregory for allowing us to use you as a victim. Thank you to all staff members who allowed the investigators to use extra class time to run their laboratory examinations of evidence, Irving said.

In the end, an arrest warrant was issued for Leah Hoy. Accidental or planned, guilt will still need to be determined by the court system.

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