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Professional Investigators Day – Debunking Myths - AFI-LLC Newsletter July 2021

PI Magazine – Continued Top Writer and Contributor Award
Congratulations to Wes Bearden, CEO and Chairman of Bearden Investigative Agency, for receiving the award for
continued top writer and contributor to PI Magazine!

Using Social Media Messaging
One of our long pet peeves has been social media messaging. Bigger - using SMM for professional - potentially
confidential - communications. Yesterday we were advised a personal contact had a breach - they hit the wrong button
and blasted their message and photos to shared lists, and those shared lists, and so on. Be professional.
(there are also potential ediscovery issues to consider)

This Day in History (June)

Forensic Evidence Captures a Murderous Father (06/08/1913)
Two farmers walking near a quarry outside of Edinburgh, Scotland, find two small, dead bodies floating in the water, tied
together. Although the bodies were so waterlogged that authorities could barely confirm that they were human, Sydney
Smith, the century’s first “Quincy,” was able to use forensics to help solve the crime.
-- continued at www.history.com/this-day-in-history/forensic-evidence-captures-a-murderous-father

The Miranda Rights Are Established (06/13/1966)
The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Miranda v. Arizona, establishing the principle that all criminal
suspects must be advised of their rights before interrogation. Now considered standard police procedure, “You have the
right to remain silent. Anything you say can, and will, be used against you in court of law. You have the right to an
attorney. If you cannot afford one, one will be appointed to you,” has been heard so many times in television and film
dramas that it has become almost cliche.
-- continued at www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-miranda-rights-are-established

Thurgood Marshall Appointed to US Supreme Court (06/13/1967)
President Lyndon B. Johnson appoints U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Thurgood Marshall to fill the seat of retiring Supreme
Court Associate Justice Tom C. Clark. On August 30, after a heated debate, the Senate confirmed Marshall’s nomination
by a vote of 69 to 11. Two days later, he was sworn in by Chief Justice Earl Warren, making him the first African
American in history to sit on America’s highest court.
-- continued at www.history.com/this-day-in-history/thurgood-marshall-appointed-to-supreme-court
(PS – be sure and watch the biopic available on Netflix – Marshall)

A Bloody Fingerprint Elicits a Mother’s Evil Tale in Argentina (06/19/1892)
Francesca Rojas’ two young children are killed in their home in the small town of Necochea, Argentina. Juan Vucetich, in
charge of criminal identification at the regional headquarters, had been intrigued by the new theories of fingerprint
identification and sent an investigator to see if the methods could help crack the case. When the investigator examined
Rojas’s house, he found a bloody thumb print on the bedroom door.
-- continued at www.history.com/this-day-in-history/a-bloody-fingerprint-elicits-a-mothers-evil-tale-in-argentina

Even Without The Corpse, A Murderer Is Uncovered (06/23/1934)
Murder conviction in New Zealand despite the fact that the body of one of his alleged victims was never found. Most of
the evidence consisted of trace amounts of human hair, bone and tissue, representing a marked advance in the field of
forensics. Sam and Christobel Lakey disappeared from their farm in Ruawaro, New Zealand, in October 1933, along with
their rifles. Christobel’s body soon turned up in a pond on the farm with terrible bruising to her face and head, and
investigators then discovered fresh bloodstains in both an old buggy and a barn, leading them to believe that Sam had
been shot and transported somewhere else.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/even-without-the-corpse-a-murderer-is-uncovered

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