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Title: Scene of the Crime: Incident Report by Noah Montondo - Lesson #20 Date: June 21, 2016 By: Carol Amberg City: Gouverneur State: New York Door # 12 INCIDENT REPORT Name of Detective: Noah Montondo Date of Investigation: 5/10/16 Date and time of crime: 5/10/16 1:30 AM TYPE OF CRIME o MISDEMEANOR X FELONY (Most states categorize damage to property worth less than $500 as a misdemeanor, while anything worth $500 or more is a felony.) OFFENSE o VANDALISM o ROBBERY o ASSAULT o ARSON X MURDER NAME OF VICTIM(S): Harold Paddinham DESCRIBE WHAT YOU SAW AT THE SCENE RELEVANT TO THE CRIME WHEN YOU ARRIVED: I saw police tape, some trace chalk, news reporters, wife, ambulance. Wife is talking with police officers. She has blood on her hands and bottom of dress, shoes, collar. The house is blue with black shuttered windows with blood on second floor left window. Left window is broken with bullet hole. Body of Harold on bottom of stairs, bullet wounds on neck and chest. Harold is in pajamas. EVIDENCE COLLECTED/PHOTOGRAPHED AT THE CRIME SCENE:  blood on 2nd floor left window with bullet hole  Harold’s body on bottom of stairs  blood trail on stairs, pool of blood around victim  mysterious love note in closet  gunshot wounds on Harold’s body  cracked hole in wall  bruises on Harold’s body that concludes a struggle  gun, 32 caliber pistol, laser sight, extended clip found in a suitcase  telephone with blood on it THEORY OF THE CRIME: NAME OF SUSPECT(S) (Who?) wife, Mrs. Paddinham and James Braiden MOTIVE (Why?) Wife had a secret love affair with a 32 year old man named James Braiden. Wife knew she wouldn’t be able to run off with James without the money in the will of her husband. METHOD (How?) Wife says that she is going out. Wife tells James to go in after she is gone and get rid of Harold. James receives the 32 caliber pistol from wife and James heads upstairs at 1:30 AM. James enters the bedroom of the soon to be victim. James, not being a master criminal, wakes Harold. Harold panics and jumps out of bed and both get into a struggle. James pushes Harold into the wall, cracking it and throws him back out to the stairway. James pulls out the 32 caliber pistol, aims the gun, and fires. Harold falls back into the window. James fires another time, hitting Harold in the neck and hitting the window. Harold falls down the spiral staircase and once he hits the bottom he dies of loss of blood and suffocation. IF MURDER, CAUSE OF DEATH: suffocation and loss of blood from gunshot to neck SUSPECT(S): x INTERROGATED Melony Paddinham x ARRESTED Melony Paddinham x NOT ARRESTED James Braiden o NOT IDENTIFIED DETECTIVE’S RECOMMENDATION FOR NEXT STEPS: Arrest Melony and search for a man named James Braiden through the New York City database.