The 4/29/13 Bones episode titled "The Secret in the Siege" began with Booth saying that if the victim was shot at least eleven times then it would be easy to classify the case as a homicide.
The investigation of a death should always take the approach of being worked as a homicide just to be completely thorough. Usually it is a combination of law enforcement and the medical examiner investigations which classify a death investigation as to the manner of death. It could be a homicide, a suicide, a natural death, an accidental death, or a death that is undetermined.
A cause of death is considered the reason that the body ceased to function. Examples are blood loss, organ failure, and/or suffocation.
The method could be determined to be a gun shot, a stabbing, strangulation, disease, drowning, etc.
On the surface it would seem to be an easy thing to figure out and for the most part the situation is obvious. But the reason every death should have the investigation proceed like a homicide is because you are never sure what twists and turns or information will develop along the way. Something that originally may appear as a suicide may actually be a homicide or something that may appear as a homicide may be accidental.
This episode clearly dealt with the homicide aspects of investigations and leaned heavily on the psychological twists and turns rather than the hard science and evidence. I guess that would fall under: motive.
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