“Let’s say you get a call, paramedics are surrounding a body that has visible scratches on the arms and you’re told the victim owns a German Shepherd with a history of aggression. What are you going to think?” 

Derek Ellington, CFE, posed this question and scenario to introduce the power of compelling narratives in his second session covering the Karen Read case. Continuing from his first session on lessons in digital evidence collection, Ellington conveyed an important lesson for fraud examiners in the ability of narratives to influence how evidence is interpreted.