Q&A for How to Interview a Suspect

Make the employee your friend, and then, after a while, ask him/her for assistance on a certain topic which you know is contained in the data of the computer in which it was stolen.

"Where were you on [date of the incident]?" "Can anyone verify your whereabouts on that date?" "What is your relationship to the victim?" If you're trying to figure out what happened, you need to ask Who, What, When, and Where questions. You want to find out exactly what happened, when and where it happened, and who was involved.

Because there are so many people inside a school, unless the stolen item has a high-value (i.e. money, which you can report to an administrator), your school has security cameras, or you know who stole your stuff and the stolen item has something on it to prove that it is your property, some people know that they can get away with stealing something from someone in school and that there's nothing you can do about it.

As an LAPD homicide and sex crimes investigator, I like to start an interview with questions such as: How did you know the victim? Where were you when the murder occurred? Do you own a firearm/other weapon? These questions allow you to gain knowledge about the accused quickly and easily. These questions are also hard to lie to because this information can be easily checked, so you can find and establish whether or not your suspect is hiding something.