Pop quiz: police procedures!
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theweaselkingPop quiz, on an unrealistic hypothetical situation.
1. Police find a suspect in a case dead. The autopsy comes back heart failure due to natural causes, the guy is buried, life goes on.
2. The guy appears again. It becomes clear, after a short time, that he's NOT in the grave, that the autopsy report was a fake, that everything around it is a fake, etc.
3. They track the guy down to his home, bust in... and discover him dead, again. It's definitely the same guy - fingerprints match and everything.
What do they do?
Canadian cop reactions preferred, but American cops, Aussie cops, London Metropolitan PD, even Japanese or Turkish or Croatian or Star Lords Of Beta Ceti IX cops. What's the *most likely* rational reaction from police, at that point?
Autopsy again, this time with witnesses and CCTV and the like?
Handcuff, stick in a cell, and wait to see if he "wakes up" again?
Something else?
Assume, for the moment, that they're already investigating the morgue and the doctor who did the original autopsy. We're only concerned, here, with their most probably reaction to the once-dead man who is now dead again.
1. Police find a suspect in a case dead. The autopsy comes back heart failure due to natural causes, the guy is buried, life goes on.
2. The guy appears again. It becomes clear, after a short time, that he's NOT in the grave, that the autopsy report was a fake, that everything around it is a fake, etc.
3. They track the guy down to his home, bust in... and discover him dead, again. It's definitely the same guy - fingerprints match and everything.
What do they do?
Canadian cop reactions preferred, but American cops, Aussie cops, London Metropolitan PD, even Japanese or Turkish or Croatian or Star Lords Of Beta Ceti IX cops. What's the *most likely* rational reaction from police, at that point?
Autopsy again, this time with witnesses and CCTV and the like?
Handcuff, stick in a cell, and wait to see if he "wakes up" again?
Something else?
Assume, for the moment, that they're already investigating the morgue and the doctor who did the original autopsy. We're only concerned, here, with their most probably reaction to the once-dead man who is now dead again.