USF criminology students investigate mock murders
SUN PHOTO BY ELAINE ALLEN-EMRICH, eallen@sun-herald.com
Betty Bullock, acting as a medical examiner, tells her assistant John Sansbury the condition of the female "victim" found tied to a tree at the State College of Florida's South Venice campus during a mock crime scene investigation Monday led by professor Bill Kemper, who teaches criminology at the University of South Florida at North Port branch. Students gathered evidence to try to figure out what happened to the woman.
SUN PHOTO BY ELAINE ALLEN-EMRICH, eallen@sun-herald.com
Students in Bill Kemper's criminology class at the USF Sarasota-Manatee at North Port review evidence at a mock crime scene of a man found in a wooded area. He was the bodyguard of the woman found tied to a tree in another area of the woods. Students had to figure out Monday how and why the two were "murdered."
SOUTH VENICE — As the college criminology students approached the desolate wooded area, they saw a woman tied to a tree. Little did they know the bodyguard of “the victim” was around the corner, also dead.
Now the 27 students had to figure out just how the woman was strangled, tied up and left to decompose. Criminology students in professor William Kemper’s class at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee’s North Port campus worked Monday in the woods during their field trip to the mock crime scene at State College of Florida’s South Venice campus. Each had to dissect the complicated crime scenes where the two “bodies” — life-size mannequins — were found.
