http://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/news/baden-clay-not-alone-manipulating-crime-scenes/2867976/
Baden-Clay not alone in manipulating crime scenes
9th Dec 2015
Dr Claire Ferguson is an expert on crime scene staging in QUT's School of Justice.
GERARD Baden-Clay is among the 3 to 8% of homicide offenders who manipulate evidence at a crime scene to mislead investigators in order to avoid arrest, a QUT forensic criminologist says.
Dr Claire Ferguson, from QUT's School of Justice says people who stage a crime scene had often killed an intimate partner or someone else who was known to them.
"Sometimes the staging is meticulously planned in advance but it can also be impromptu after an unintended killing- it may be 'I've killed him/her - I can't go to prison for the rest of my life'," Dr Ferguson said.
"Relative to other offenders who stage scenes, Baden-Clay's efforts were more sophisticated and required quite a bit of effort - moving the body, disposing of it, cleaning up evidence and creating a façade of a grieving husband for police and the public...