ABSTRACT
By conducting a victimology, the investigator increases solvability drastically since most homicidal acts of drowning involve a suspect known to the victim. Drowning is not a crime of opportunity. It would be very di¬cult for a criminal to plan and execute a drowning of a total stranger. An investigator may not want to accept the fact that a parent or loved one could have possibly drowned a child. But, just as parents beat, stab, strangle, shake, burn, and suocate their children, they are also capable of drowning them. No matter how badly an investigator may want to write the incident o as an accident, all water-related deaths must be thoroughly investigated.
