Process of Elimination
This stages is all about eliminating suspects through what has been found from the analysis and identification of patterns and links. This is an important stage within each case and should always be carried out, every case looked into by police should have more than one suspect so the case is not only focusing on blaming them. The potential suspects that have nothing to do with the case are eliminated due to the lack of evidence to question them further. All evidence taken from the scene has been analysed before this point so this will means there is exact evidence that can be used in court to prove that person is a criminal, whether this be a piece of DNA left at the scene or a weapon in there house. If there is no known crime scene and only one suspect the police will work with the community in order to find potential pieces of evidence to keep them behind bars, witness statements are also used to as a vital piece of evidence in this step if a suspect has been seen by multiple people at a scene but has not left any evidence behind this will be taken into account by the police and they will further investigate it.
The Soham Murders and The Process of Elimination
Within the Soham Murders the process of elimination wasn't an important stage, this was because as they had found sufficient evidence to like Ian to the girls murders there was no need to explore any other suspects expect for his girlfriend Maxine Carr these two people are located above, on the left being Huntley and on the right being Carr. Throughout the whole investigation other suspect where looked at but eliminated at an earlier stage due to the lack of evidence, these where the sighting from the taxi driver, the two males and the man driving the white van. Police had no other evidence within the investigation to look at any other suspects due to everything leading them to Ian Huntley. Huntley still hasn't admitted to killing the girls and describes it as being an "accident" he claims that Holly banged her head in the bathroom while trying to control her nose bleed and Jessica was suffocated due to a panic of what happened to Holly.