How does a murder investigation work in a small town? Who investigates it and how doe that investigation develop?

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When a homicide happens in a small town in the US how does it unfold? My assumption is that every town in the USA doesn’t have a homicide detective. So who would be assigned to those cases? Is a detective brought in after a certain point? If the person who would usually be in charge of those cases is out of town, who leads the cases until they return?

I’m writing a murder mystery book and I’m doing some research. any information is appreciated, god bless.

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I live in a very small town that had a murder recently. We don’t actually have a police force, we are covered by the county sheriff and they called in the state police for help. Got things taken care of quite neatly and we were all impressed.

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