"Dead bodies don't speak but they tell an incredible story.”
As stated in part one of the series, the Windsor Police Forensic Identification Branch may not be as glamourous as television – but there are still many stories to be told in Windsor. Just recently, Forensic Identification officers were able to obtain latent fingerprints from a scene and that led to the suspect's identity. They helped the Windsor Police arrest a 17-year-old who committed a string of sexual assaults. Further investigation revealed that the suspect was also responsible for two other sexual assaults that occurred in July.
The Forensic department handles much more than just homicides – they're at every crime. They always have cases to work on. According to Sgt. Douglas Cowper, their “bread and butter” are break and enters. It's what we do day in and day out. Finger prints and foot prints can be found around every scene. They photograph many scenes for the Windsor Police – the need for photos will always be there. They deal with assaults, sexual assaults, traffic accidents, grow-ops and much more, but it's the crimes involving death that is the most challenging.
“There are a lot of awful things in this job,” Cowper said. “Other officers look at us and say they can never do our job. We see a lot of death. We deal with a lot of autopsies. Death is messy, gross and smells awful, and I give my officers a lot of credit.”
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