Flies+and+Spies+JCD

1. Describe how the CSI team knew that the suicide note was forged. They took it to a forensic specialist who knew about the different ink patterns. He saw that the angle produced the different pen strokes so it was probably not written at will. Also, there was no red pen present at the scene of the crime, and the hand of the dead lady had no blood even though the gun was covered in blood. The suspect had a red pen which was tested to be the same pen type as the note.

2. Explain how Grissom figured out that the blow fly data in Mark Thayer's was incorrect. He saw that the blowflies were dead on the pig carcass so something must have been wrong or maybe poinsoned. He also researched and saw that the blowflies actually came atfter 11 days so something must be wrong. After testing the different chemicals on the pig, he saw that the pig had been sprayed with poison