Analyzing Investigative Failures in the Murder of Hae Min Lee: A Case Study

A murder investigation is a science but not perfect. There are instances of investigative failure both on the part of law enforcement and forensics. For this paper, you are going to analyze a real-life criminal investigation and answer the questions below. Your paper must include material from the textbook but also must include at least three peer-reviewed sources. You can use non-peer-reviewed sources in addition to your required sources. The paper must be a minimum of 1400 words not including the title or citation pages. Must use APA for citation.
Your paper must analyze one real-life case. You cannot use any of the three cases below because examples using these cases will be provided to you for review.
The “West Memphis Three”
The Murder of Jon Benet Ramsey
The “Atlanta Child Murders” from 1979-1981
Use must address the three major sections below and answer the correlating questions
Case Summary
What happened in this case? What were some of the key elements that caused the investigative failure?
Analysis 
Analyze the errors of the case. What techniques were or were not used? Correctly or incorrectly?
Impact 
What was the impact of the error on this case? So, do you think that something was missed? What was the final outcome of the case? Compare to other cases.
APA requirements
No Abstract is required for this paper, a Title Page is required.
The paper must be typed & numbered.
The paper must be 1400 words not including the title or citation page.
The paper should adhere to A.P.A format.
Do not use secondary citations (i.e., a citation that was in one of your readings, but you never actually read the original research). Do not cite by summarizing one reading, then another, then another, etc.  Instead, you need to integrate the citations into your essay.
This is a scholarly paper.  Avoid using “I” (or other pronouns).
The paper must include a title.
The paper must include an introduction paragraph that should grab the reader’s attention and state the thesis of the paper.
Ex.  The purpose of this paper is to ….
The paper must include supporting paragraphs.
Do not use long quotes.
Break up paragraphs so that one paragraph does not go on for a whole page.
**Be sure to cite authors in your paragraphs.
The paper must include a conclusion paragraph.
Ex.  In conclusion, this paper presented….

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