Financial Hide-and-Seek: How Smurfing Works
Smurfing is one of those criminal techniques that sounds oddly adorable until you realize it’s basically financial hide-and-seek with regulators. No, it has nothing to do with tiny blue cartoon…
Psychological Autopsy: Investigating a Mind After Death
When someone dies under unclear or controversial circumstances, investigators typically begin by searching for physical evidence. Fingerprints, blood patterns, toxicology reports, phone records, and surveillance footage are all part of…
Why Dumpster Diving Can Be Dangerous for Individuals and Organizations
Dumpster diving is a practice that consists of searching through discarded materials (usually in trash bins or dumpsters) in order to recover items or information that may still have value.…
Geoprofiling: The Geography Behind Criminal Behavior
Geoprofiling means geographic profiling. It’s an investigative technique used in criminology and criminal profiling to estimate the most likely area where an offender lives, works, or frequently visits, based on…