Crimes have been existing since the dawn of human evolution. Its existence has been a threat to the society. The ever-changing nature of crimes in the world is creating challenges to the police department as well as the investigating agencies of various wings. To keep up with the dynamic nature of crimes and the complexity of the crimes committed are being surfaced every day, and solving them became an entanglement to an investigative officer. Due to the lack of perception or human error in judging an object in the crime scene as a potential evidence, many crimes over the decades took so many years to solve and some remained a mystery. The paper presents state of the art for ontologies-based approaches that will try to help certain investigative officer in not only piling up the evidences collected but also draw out a pattern that might suggest him the approach to solve the case in no time. This system focusses mainly on organized crimes due to most of the unsolved crimes that were being a part of it. © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd 2020.