Successful event for high school students includes crime scene investigation

CELINA, OH - The skeletal remains of an unidentified female were found wrapped in plastic on the beach at Wright State University-Lake Campus.  Detectives swarmed the beach collecting evidence, taking photos, and documenting the scene. In this scenario, the detectives were seven high school students attending a Forensics Camp at Wright State University-Lake Campus. Their task: determine what happened in this mock-crime scene.

Dr. Dennis Bulen, Associate Professor of Crime and Justice Studies at the Lake Campus, staged three crime scenes and each team had to process the crime scenes for their