Develop an investigative plan. What steps would you take?
Mary Jones F/H/12 and Susan Smith F/W/11 have been reported missing at 10 am by their school principal. They both attend JHS 145 in Sunnyside, Queens. They were due at school at 8 am however neither arrived. A neighbor saw Mary talking to an unidentified male two blocks from the school at approximately 7:45 am. The school is located in the 108 Precinct. The patrol officers have conducted a search of the school and the children’s residences with negative results.
During their search the Officers were alerted that a superintendent of a building located around the corner from where Mary was last seen recovered a bloody shirt in the rear courtyard of the building.
You are the assigned Detective, upon arriving at the school to conduct follow-up interviews you are notified that patrols officers assigned to your command have discovered a body of a young girl has in the basement of a building on the school block.
