Focusing on the legal aftermath of the 2007 assassination of Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink, this project innovates methods and forums for making authoritative claims on public truth in a context where public authorities tasked with this duty have worked to obscure facts and obstruct justice. Violence against Evidence combines a digital forensic investigation of the crime scene of Dink’s assassination with an in-depth study and rearchiving of the extensive case file, to produce a compelling account of the complicity of the legal procedure in the crime that it was meant to address. It will map and narrate the interpenetrations of extralegal state violence and legal violence by focusing on procedural erasures and ellipses. This is a multimodal study of what is not there – unfollowed leads, missing or destroyed evidence, unfulfilled information requests, obscured links, redacted documents– proposing a “negative space” method for producing knowledge, where what is missing is brought into relief by the meticulous analysis of what surrounds it.