ABSTRACT
As this author’s colleague at the medical examiner’s o‹ce, Investigator Maury Miller recently demonstrated, “It is necessary to look into the evidence and not at it.”† While
scouting out locations for a mock crime scene he came across an interesting but unusual small pile of rocks. In those rocks were rearms in various stages of disassembly. A·er the local law enforcement investigators arrived, it was concluded that they had been likely taken during a home invasion. Investigator Miller o€ered that it looked more like they were in various stages of repair. ‚is turned out to be the key to the case, as they were found to have been taken from the shop of a gunsmith. ‚is presents two lessons: observation skills, and looking into-not at-the evidence and information.
