RSG #353: How To Trace FBI Evidence Through Evidence Control Records

RSG #353: How To Trace FBI Evidence Through Evidence Control Records

Physical evidence does not explain its own history. A seized telephone cannot tell you who collected it, where it was stored, whether a laboratory examined it, or why it later vanished from the public record. That history lives in evidence control records. Learning how to trace FBI evidence through evidence control records can help researchers …

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RSG #351: How To Reconstruct an Epstein Investigation From Closing Records

An investigation rarely ends with a dramatic official stamping “CASE CLOSED” across a folder while violins play in the background. More often, it ends through a quiet collection of memoranda, database entries, supervisor approvals, evidence instructions, referral notices, declination decisions, and administrative forms. Those closing records can reveal what investigators examined, which allegations they pursued, …

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