Dial+M+for+Murder+RY

= Questions=

1. How do the detectives approach the crime scene? When they first enter the scene, they look for all the evidence that might give clues as to what occurred. Once they found substantial evidence against the wife, such as the blackmail note in the victim's jacktet, the detectives came to the conclusion that the wife murdered the victim when he entered the apartment, when in fact her husband hired the dead man to kill his wife.

2. What techniques for solving the crime were available? The detectives matched fibers from feet to the door mat outside the apartment, and the husband tried to hide his fingerprints from the authorities. The detectives simply used logic to solve the crime rather than highly advanced technology.

3. How was the crime eventually solved? The detectives found the husband when the case full of money that he was going to pay the dead man after he killed his wife. However, the husband fit the case into the story he had been telling to detectives to avoid being arrested. Some time later, the husband was trying to get into his apartment and his key wouldn't work. So, he went back to the police station to get his wife's purse. When that key did not work either, he went to the stairs to get the key his hired killer left there after he remembered what his hired killer did. When he comes into the apartment, the police are waiting for him, and he gets arrested for the attempted murder of his wife.

CSI Comparison
The methods used in the episode "Harvest" are much more technologically based in general. Blood stains are detected by instrumnents the investigators use while examining the crime scene, while blood was nonexistent in Dial M For Murder. In CSI, the investigators take evidence back to a lab for identification. For example, the investigators identify DNA samples, fingerprints, and indentions left by different objects. However, the investigators in the movie conducted all their evidence identification procedures at the crime scene itself. The investigators combined the evidence found at the scene with deductive reasoning to solve the crime.