Police experts unravel a mysterious murder with methods never before seen in Lithuania



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During the pre-trial investigation by officers of the Šiauliai County LSC Criminal Police Crime Investigation Board, the circumstances of the murder committed in April this year were established. Police officers who arrived at the Guostagalis village house in Pakruojis district in the evening found a drunken landlord and a man lying in an armchair with no signs of life with a knife to his chest.

According to the study, men who met after work ate and drank alcohol. The owner, who called the officers himself, was found to have a rate of 2.48 per 1,000 drinks.

The defendant said he did not remember what happened while they slept. The man assured that they were not angry and therefore did not know what could have happened to the victim, reports the prosecution.

The pre-trial investigation investigated various versions of the death, including suicide. The suicidal version was rejected after investigations by specialists who denied that the person could have been injured. Experts from the Siauliai County LSC Criminal Investigation Service, together with specialists from the Lithuanian Police Criminal Investigation Center, carried out special work in this investigation. For the first time, they carried out a forensic method that until now had not been used in our country: the examination of the blood trace.

Examining the pattern of blood traces can help identify the circumstances of a crime and recreate events at a crime scene, such as what blows were inflicted on a person standing or lying down, how many blows were inflicted, etc.

Examining traces of blood on clothing can help confirm or deny the testimony of witnesses, suspects, and victims. The investigation can determine whether traces of blood on the suspect’s clothing match the suspect’s testimony at the scene (to determine where the person was and what they were doing at the crime scene).

An investigation of the blood trail of the victim and the suspect in this murder case helped establish that the victim had been killed by an absorber, an owner, although the latter did not provide investigators with any information about the incident due to drunkenness. previous.

For this crime, the Penal Code provides prison sentences of 7 to 15 years.

The criminal case was transferred to the Šiauliai Regional Court.



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