BOSTON -- Former Massachusetts State Police Crime Lab administrator Bob Pino explained to Team 5 Investigates how real-life crime scene investigations differ from those that are portrayed on television.

According to Pino, the difference between what we see on television and real-life crime scene investigation work is that "in real life, there are other things that have to be done."

"With C.S.I. on television, everything has to be done within that one hour time frame, but in real case work, there's also the actual taking in of evidence, the chain of custody matters that have to be done, then the actual evidence has to be examined by separate examiners," Pino said. "The stains have to be identified and once they're identified they have to be typed up, and each one of these processes can take either days or weeks, depending on which type of testing you're doing."

Pino says that what you see on television doesn't accurately reflect how an actual crime lab works.

"Everything goes into different compartments, different laboratories do different types of the examination. So you'd have one part that does finger prints, one part that does any kind of trace identification, one that does the state identification, and then there'd be DNA done afterwards," said Pino.

He added that real crime labs are often understaffed, overworked and not as aesthetically pleasing to look as the ones who are portrayed on television.