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Report (dated 3 June) with
images of forensic exams
carried out in Apt 5A on 4
May 2007. |
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TRANSLATION BY ALBYM |
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Processo Vol 9 Pages 2307 to 2323 |
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Specialist Examination Report
200707060-CR/L
Requester: DIC PJ Portimao
Fax: 399 of 8 May 2007
Date: 4 May 2007
- INQUIRY -
This is the report of the
specialist examination of a
dwelling situated at Apartment
5A, of Block
A of the tourist accommodation
building, "Ocean Club" - Praia
da Luz, Lagos, from where there
occurred, on 3 May 2007, the
disappearance of a minor of
English nationality.
- OBSERVATIONS AND ANALYSES
PERFORMED -
On 4 May 2007, at 15:30, a Crime
Scene team from the Police
Science Laboratory, comprising
the undersigned, went, at the
request of DIC PJ Portimao, to a
dwelling situated at Apartment
5A, of Block A of the tourist
accommodation building, "Ocean
Club" - Praia da Luz, Lagos, in
order to perform a specialist
examination of the location.There follow photograph displays
of the exterior of the apartment
to be examined as well as
detail of the entrance thereto.
Photo 1: Orthographic map of the
location with the target
apartment being indicated with a
red
circle. |
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Photos 2 and 3:
Displays of the entrance (from Rua Doutor
Agostinho da Silve) and of the
apron [open paved area; car park] existing
in the immediate area of the tourist
accommodation building of the target
apartment, the front door to which is
indicated with a
red arrow.
Photos 4 to 6: Displays of the pathway to
the main door of the target apartment, of
that door
with the number 5A being visible, and of the
sign at the street access in front of the
referred
apartment. |
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Photo
7: Display of the side and rear
of the target apartment.
Photos 8 to 10: Displays of the
side gate leading to the
apartment, of the small garden
area
and of the pathway behind it. |
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adjacent to sink , fridge behind kitchen
door |
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Initially a general observation of the interior of
the apartment was carried out it being seen that it
comprised a kitchen, a living room, a bathroom, a
master bedroom and a bedroom with two single beds
and two small cots for children.
Photos 11 and 12: Displays of the interior
of the kitchen of the target apartment.
Photos 13 to 15: Displays of the interior of
the living room and of the hallway to the
street
door at the front of the apartment. |
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photo 17: bath
with shower hose |
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Photos
16 and 17: Displays of the
entrance and of the interior of
the bathroom of the target
apartment.
Photos 18 to
20: Displays of the interior of
the master bedroom of the target
apartment. |
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Photos
21 to 23:
Displays of the the bedroom with two single
beds of the target apartment.
Then began the detailed observation of the
apartment interior ending with the search
and
recovery of forensic trace material relevant
to the present examination.
Initially the search began for latent
shoe-prints it being verified that dozens
existed on the
floor, in the various rooms of the
apartment, which invalidated the attempt of
identifying
those of the perpetrator. Also, innumerable
tracks [footprints] that were taken to be
canine in
origin mixed with red- and white-coloured
chemical products, as used to see
fingerprints, and
an enormous quantity of hairs probably of
animal (dog) origin that made it difficult
to find
possible traces, especially in the bedroom
of two single beds and two children's cots
from
where the minor disappeared, and next to the
aluminium window/door leading from inside
the
living room to the exterior area behind the
apartment. |
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Photos
24 and 25: Detail of the
red-coloured chemical existing
in the bedroom from where the
minor disappeared.
It proceeded with the search and
recovery of hairs from the
floors of the pathways
[a] of
the
front door hallway and
[b] from
the aluminium window/door of the
living room up to the
interior of the bedroom with two
single beds from where the minor
disappeared, and from the
entire floor of that bedroom.
[NOTE: I have inserted the [a]
and [b] into my translation to
make it clear that there were
two
pathways being examined.]
In this search the following was
recovered:
- various hairs from the floor
in the area of the doorway of
the bedroom with two single beds
from where the minor
disappeared, they being placed
inside a paper envelope in
accordance
with instructions issued by the
Biology Section of the LPC and
referenced as trace evidence #1;
- various hairs from the floor
area next to the bed where the
missing child was sleeping, they
being placed inside a paper
envelope in accordance with instructions issued by the
Biology
Section of the LPC and
referenced as trace evidence #2;
- various hairs from the top of
the bed where the missing child
was sleeping, they being placed
inside a paper envelope in
accordance with instructions
issued by the Biology Section of
the
LPC and referenced as trace
evidence #3; |
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First reference to stain on
bedspread |
- various hairs from the floor area next to
the bed opposite to the bed from which the
sleeping
child disappeared, they being placed inside
a paper envelope in accordance with
instructions
issued by the Biology Section of the LPC and referenced as trace evidence
#4;
- various hairs from the floor of the
living room, they being placed inside a
paper envelope in
accordance with instructions issued by the
Biology Section of the LPC and referenced as
trace
evidence #6;
- various hairs from the floor of the main
door entrance hallway of the apartment, they
being
placed inside a paper envelope in accordance
with instructions issued by the Biology
Section of
the LPC and referenced as trace evidence #7;
On the single bed opposite to that from
which the child disappeared, despite it
being
impregnated the red-coloured chemical
product referred to, the search for hairs
proceeded,that search having been negative.
After the recovery of hairs described above
there proceeded the search for possible
traces of
semen, using a variable-wave light source
appropriate for the task, there being
identified
various
[several] areas where fluorescence characteristic of this type of trace
evidence was seen.
The areas where the fluorescence was seen
were submitted to a "Phosphatise test"
search
there being a slightly positive reaction
(purplish colour)
only in area of the
bed-cover of the
single bed opposite to the bed from where
the minor disappeared, a piece of that
bed-cover
being collected and placed inside a paper
envelope in accordance with instructions
issued by
the Biology Section of the LPC, it being
referenced as trace evidence #5;
A search was also made for possible
biological traces and fibres on the single
bed from where
the minor disappeared, using a variable-wave
light source appropriate for the task, the
result
obtained having been negative. |
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The
area of the pillow of the bed
from the minor disappeared was
inspected with the intention
to detect the presence of some
smell [aroma]
characteristic of volatile substances typical of
chloroform or ether, this search
proving negative
There proceeded the search for
possible blood traces in all of
the apartment, using a variable-
wave light source appropriate
for the task.This search resulted in the
detection of several spots
having a red-brown tone that
suggested
blood, which were subjected to a
"Kastle-Mayer"
peroxidise test,
the result obtained, in all
cases, being negative.
There also proceeded the
observation and search for blood
traces inside the apartment
using a
chemical product to find latent
blood traces. In the application
of the referred product no
results characteristic of the
presence of blood traces were
found
Photos 26 and 27: Displays of
the floor area of the bedroom
from where the minor
disappeared from where were
collected hairs referenced as
trace evidence #1. |
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Photos 28 to 30:
Displays of the floor area of the bedroom
from where the child disappeared
from where were collected hairs referenced
as trace evidence #2 and the top of the bed
from
where the child disappeared from where were
collected hairs referenced as trace evidence
#3.
Photos 31 and 32: Displays of the upper part
of the bed [i.e. the head of the bed]
from
where
the child disappeared there being indicated
the hairs recovered and detail of some of
those
hairs. |
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Photos of bedspread stain |
Photos 33 to 35: Displays of the
bedroom floor area next to the
single bed opposite to the bed
from where the child disappeared
from where were collected the
hairs referenced as trace
evidence #4
and the area of the
single bed opposite to the bed
from where the child
disappeared from where was taken
a piece of cloth with presumed
traces of semen it having
been referenced as trace
evidence #5.
Photos 36 and 37: Displays of
the floor areas of the living
room and of the street door
hallway
from where were recovered hairs
referenced as trace evidence #6
and #7. |
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Finally, there
also proceeded the detailed analysis of the
door and of the windows of the target
apartment there not being detected the
existence of any clues/traces of
break-in/forced entry
on them.
Photos 38 to 40: Detail of the lock of the
door of the apartment front entrance where
the non-existence of break-in/forced entry was
verified. |
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Photos
41 to 43: Details of the window
of the bedroom from which the
child disappeared where
the non-existence of
traces/clues of break-in/forced
entry was verified.
After the examination of the
inside of the apartment and
despite the immediate
surroundings of the referred apartment not
having been preserved
[protected]
there proceeded the
detailed
observation of the exterior
there not having been detected
the existence of any
objects/traces
of forensic value and
[nor] of
any traces of shoe-prints in the
garden area of the apartment.
The recovery of cigarette stubs
was not viable due to the
existence of a reasonable
quantity
thereof within the referred
perimeter.
[Note: I think the writer meant
to say 'due to the non-existence
of'.] |
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Photos 44 to 46:
Displays of the front of the apartment where
various people were observed,
there being visible the location of the
security cordon delimiting access to the
dwelling and the
access pathway to the garden that also had
not been preserved.
- CONCLUSIONS -
[The indented paragraphs are repeats of the
detailed collections and recoveries
described in
the body of the report.]
The trace evidence described before and
referenced as #1 to #7 were delivered to the
Lisbon
Office of the National Institute of Legal
Medicine, under cover of delivery note
#156/2007-CR/L
a copy of which is attached, for further
laboratory examination.
Lisbon, 3 July 2007
J P Cardoso, F Viegas |
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Map of flat showing trace
collection locations |
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