Body+Farm+Notes+CEB

Body Farm Important Points:

__The Basics: Characters-__ Kay Scarpetta- Narrator, forensic expert Emily Steiner- victim Lucy- Kay’s niece Captain Pete Marino Max Ferguson- state bureau of investigation Lieutenant Hershel Mote- black mountain police Benton Wesley- unit chief Gault- suspect- known serial killer Dr. James Jenrette- medical examiner
 * Chapter 1:**

__Location__- In Quantico Virginia at FBI head quarters -Murder took place in Black Mountain North Carolina

VICAP- fingerprint database program that Lucy is working on

Wesley takes Kay to se her niece Lucy CAIN- automated system that models the real world as much as possible. Condensed criminal form on-line or old way, writing pad, finger print data base for repeat offenders Lucy and Kay get in fight
 * Chapter 2:**

Characters- Dr Katz- body farm person from Knoxville
 * Chapter 3:**

-Mote find Ferguson’s body -Wesley, Marino, and Kay go to Ferguson’s home and find him: with a noose around his neck, in girl underwear, with a wooden bar stool inches from his body. They found bourbon -Mote goes into cardiac arrest -Katz arrives

-Katz – cyanoacrylate blowing contraption- pick up fingerprints -Wesley and Kay find skin pieces in Ferguson’s fridge
 * Chapter 4:**

-Wesley and Kay go to Ferguson’s basement to look for evidence of Emily Steiner -Break the glass to get in, Wesley cuts himself, Kay wraps him up with her pantyhose -The three stay at the Travel-exe Motel -Kay takes care of Wesley’s cuts on his leg and arm -Kay and Wesley talk on the porch for a while and then sleep together -Wesley leaves to take skin back to Quantico
 * Chapter 5:**

-Marino is jealous of Wesley and Kay -Marino goes to see Mrs. Steiner -Kay goes to see Dr. Jenrette and see Ferguson’s and Emily’s body -Mrs. Steiner had called Jenrette 5 times daily since Emily died -find a mark on Emily’s left butt cheek, Kay wants to exhume Emily’s body and see what the mark is -They go to see Judge Begley to get the warrant, he demands to see Mrs. Steiner and get her approval
 * Chapter 6:**

-Marino is rude to Kay but says he will bring Mrs. Steiner -Mrs. Steiner agreed to exhume her -Kay goes out by the lake to where Emily’s body was, alone -Finds Fireballs, the candy that Emily said the boy gave her, where Emily’s body was -Kay gets scared and runs toward the Steiner home -Runs into Marino, he scolds her for being out there alone -Marino takes Kay to the Peddler, Kay realizes he likes Mrs. Steiner
 * Chapter 7:**

__Characters__: Lucias Ray- cemetary director of funeral home man- very large, thick white hair, wears long trench coat
 * Chapter 8:**

-Go to the cemetary behind Third Presbyterian Church -Emily's haed stone was a small marbale angel- "THere is no other in the World-- Mine was the only one." (Emily Dickenson?) -Marino verbaly attacks reporters -Kay leaves to go see Dr. Jenrette- leave Marino to go get better (after he throws up in the woods) -Kay tells arino that Westly has her cell number- it hurts him.

-No one knows how the press found out about the exhumation, Kay makes it quite clear no more talking about what happens in the lab. nothing can leakout -They find bite marks on Emily's tounge- indicating a seizure before death- but head ingury (brain) shows she didn't survive long enough to have a seizure -Kay gets half a dozen black rings (acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene- material that composes water sewage lines -uses super glue to stabalize the mark and ring as not to distort the image of the mark since skin streatches -find a dead kitten in a shoe box wrapped up and left in Emily's casket- Lucias Ray says Mrs. Steiner put it in there right before the funeral -Kay and Marino go to Mrs. Steiners house in Marinos new car   car has: (chevrolet caprice, fully loaded with flashlights, radio, telephone, scanner, mounted video camera,Winchester stainless steel Marin 12 gauge shotgun) -Mario thinks the town wants him as new police chief, he thinks they are giving him gifts because they want him -Marino and Kay get in a fight in the car on the way to Steiner residence -When they get there Kay questions Mrs. Steiner- Marino gets up to doodd jobs (knows the house well- it makes Kay uncomftroable) -Kay askes about: -Mrs. Steiner starts talking to Kay in an acusatory tone about why she let Gault get away and do this to her little girl-- Marino says they are going to leave so she can rest when she gets upset -Kay thinks Marion is no longer effective in this case because of his feelings for her -Kay wants to go to Wren Maxwells house -Wren: tall, lanky, sunny blond hair, dark blue eyes -they go to the house and Kay talks to Wren: (she finds out that he saw her at the church early but didn't go see her, ignored her at church, she left early) -Wren told her about Creed- the janitor at school -Kay doesn't think Wren did it -Kay doesn't think Emily took the shortcut after church either, she thinks Emily was up to something and lied to her mother because she said no one especially not an 11 year old would make that walk (that she made) int he dark -Wesley called for Kay and tells her that somthing is wrong with Lucy but that physically she is ok
 * Chapter 9:**
 * the kitten- she says she has no idea who would do that
 * askes about phone calls recieved- one older man saying he wasn't finished
 * askes about Mary Joe- child ost to SIDS when she was 1
 * askes about eating habits- comes to find that she was picky eater had frequent nausea and diarrah--also comes to find that Ferguson had already asked her those questions--meaning she could have been one of the last people to talk to him

-Kay's trip home is delayed because of bad weather (doesn't take off untill 230) -Wesley is waiting for Kay when she lands, he talks to her about the Steiner case untill they get into a secure location to talk about Lucy -Wesley says that Denesa Steiners fingerprints were found on the panties Ferguson was wearing, also the skin in the freezer was found to be O + just like Emily, waiting for DN to confirm. -Wesley says Ferguson stole stuff, Kay corrects somone -Go into Wesleys office and Kay comments on how she likes that it i not full of all "war" memrobelia but has pictures. -Tells Kay is show the Lucy broke into ERF- although she has clearence to be in there not at 3 int he morning and not to go into classified files about clasified projects. She got into everything so they dont know what she was looking for specifically. She printed programs from the electronic version of case managemnts that she had been working with (ie CAIN). -They talk about Lucy's drinking- Kay says prob in extreem and that Lucy's father was an alcholic -Weley makes it clear that even if someone had found Lucy's PIN they still had to have her thumb print to get in. Kay says Lucy would know better than anyone that the things would be logged so she wanted to get caught of didn't do it. -OPR is going to conduct an investigation, if she is guilty and stole things she is a feelon, if not then she will not work with the FBI for sure. She has been asked to leave Quantio for the investigationso she goes to stay with Kay in Richmond -The tow girls talk, but nothing really gets out, Lucy says she was set up, and doens't think that Kay believes her -Lucy tries to decide where to go, maybe with Kay to NC, or to Charlotte- but not sure how get there, Miami, back to UVA next semester, Kay offeres to let Lucy stay at her place in Richmond untill Christmas when she goes back to school
 * Chapter 10:**