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A group CyberVideo link is established
 
Cop8957
:
As you know, what we have here is a double homicide. These two
scientists, the DNA specialist and the computer specialist, had
apparently worked together harmoniously for years. Recently, how-
ever, they had been observed in arguments in which it was apparent
that the biologist’s only concern was with the nucleotide sequences
and the computer guy’s only concern was with bits and bytes. Their
colleagues reported that these arguments had grown more and
more animated recently. Now, all of a sudden, they’re both dead.
I’ve never seen anything quite like it.
 
DNAtyper794
:
OK, thanks, we’ll see what we can get. Meet you for breakfast when
we are done?
 
Cop8957
:
Fine, I’ll keep my CyberCafe link on and order us all breakfast. The
usual?
 
3:00 AM
The three criminalists enter the scene and begin to process it. The DNAtyper is
observed cutting samples from the clothing of the two victims, taking swabs of
bloodstains underneath them on the floor, scanning these samples with his Nano-
BioSampler and finding out the obvious. The GunIDer spends his entire time at the
scene making barrel and breach face casts of the gun collection of one of the deceased
scientists who was a firearms collector and kept his collection in the laboratory for
security reasons. The Criminalist neophyte is the only one of the three that seems
to note that the two scientists stabbed each other to death.
 
6:00 AM
The criminalists pack up their stuff and disperse back to their respective offices where
each sets up a CyberCafe link by putting on his CyberView goggles and accessing the
secure band frequency reserved by law enforcement for such conferences.
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