Autoerotic Death & Suicide Investigations
2-hour Idaho POST-certified online course on autoerotic death and suicide investigation. Scene recognition, asphyxiation mechanics, misclassification avoidance, and documentation.
Autoerotic Death & Suicide Investigations
$40.00
Description
Autoerotic deaths are misclassified with disturbing regularity. Investigators who have not seen one before often call it a suicide. Investigators who have not been trained sometimes call it a homicide. Both errors have consequences: for the family, for the case, and for the investigator’s credibility in court. This 2-hour course gives detectives and investigators the scene recognition skills and investigative framework to get the classification right. Idaho POST-certified.
These scenes are not common, but they are not rare either. The investigator who has never encountered one before and has never been trained for it is the one most likely to make a costly mistake. This course changes that.
What This Course Covers
- Asphyxiation: mechanisms, physical findings, and what the body tells the investigator
- Suicide scene recognition and documentation: what separates a confirmed suicide from an equivocal death
- Autoerotic death: behavioral patterns, physical indicators, common props and devices, and scene characteristics that distinguish accidental from intentional
- The misclassification problem: why these scenes get called wrong and how to avoid it
- Evidence documentation and scene photography specific to these cases
- Family notification and the investigative approach to sensitive death scenes
- Interaction with medical examiners and the role of the death investigation team
2 hours. Idaho POST-certified. Online, self-paced.
