crime scene

noun

: the place where a crime happened
The police found my wallet at the crime scene.

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Just about every evening before the Rainbow Room gets rolling, a group taking a ghost tour will walk past the pot of fake gold near the front door and ask to see the crime scene. Keith Sharon, Nashville Tennessean, 7 Oct. 2025 The culprit turns out to be the disgruntled father of a girl implicated on a prior case the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department's crime scene investigators handled. Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Oct. 2025 What is perhaps more unspeakable is that 30 Border Patrol agents called the Chicago Police Department for assistance after a mob formed around the crime scene, and the Chicago Police Department’s Chief of Patrol instructed his officers to STAND DOWN. Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025 Weeks after Mary was buried, the children of Frederica Loss, who ran a tavern near the crime scene, discovered a handkerchief marked with Mary’s initials, along with her parasol and parts of her dress, hidden in the brush. Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for crime scene

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“Crime scene.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crime%20scene. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.

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