crime scene

noun

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

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In the other, a judge noted in a ruling that police conducted no forensic medical exam of the victim and appeared to make no attempt at locating a crime scene. Willoughby Mariano, ProPublica, 11 Sep. 2025 Additionally, the details of Mamet's manila envelope scene line up perfectly with her last appearance on the show, which saw her character Joyce, a photographer who befriends Elizabeth Moss' Peggy, show off a series of graphic photos from a brutal crime scene. Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2025 They were used to train death investigators and that's, they were developed to teach people to look very methodically at every detail of a crime scene. Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 10 Sep. 2025 Prosecutors have disclosed more than 40 potential witnesses and hundreds of exhibits, including forensic evidence allegedly tying Routh to the weapon found at the crime scene. Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 8 Sep. 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 Sep. 2025.

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