Richland County Sheriff’s Department points to mobile-phone forensics as “vital asset” in recent homicide-solving successes
Recent national reports of the Richland County Sheriff’s Department’s (RCSD) successes in solving 100-percent of all homicide cases (80 murder cases in fact since 2023) beg the question: How? Broad investigative team effort, including an intelligence and analysis unit which is second to none; strong community support; and technologies to include ballistics, forensics, and in-house tech services.
As part of in-house tech services: “Having a full-time digital forensics unit has been an absolute game-changer for criminal investigations as a whole,” said RCSD Major Ricky E. Johnson with the department’s Criminal Investigations Division. “We are not in the business of forensically guessing.”…