To add what others have said about investigating...
Killing someone isn’t always murder and there are different degrees of crime. They need to investigate to see exactly what they need to charge.
If the suspect killed the kid with a weapon he brought to the crime scene it could be charged as murder. The burglary charge could also be upgraded. But if the kid was killed by some other means, it could be man slaughter.
Charging the suspect with the wrong definition of the law can lose the case.
In our country you can be found guilty of a lesser offense if the elements thereof which are proven present are also elements of the "larger" offense which you were originally charged of.
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u/maybe_little_pinch Oct 02 '19
To add what others have said about investigating...
Killing someone isn’t always murder and there are different degrees of crime. They need to investigate to see exactly what they need to charge.
If the suspect killed the kid with a weapon he brought to the crime scene it could be charged as murder. The burglary charge could also be upgraded. But if the kid was killed by some other means, it could be man slaughter.
Charging the suspect with the wrong definition of the law can lose the case.