CSI+Secrets+And+Flies-Spencer

Summarize this episode paying close attention to topics that relate to the concept maps we made for evidence in class.

Answer the following questions:

1. Describe how the CSI team knew that the suicide note was forged.

First of all the note was written in a red pin, and a red pin couldn't be found at all in the house. The ink had un even distrubution, meant that this characteristic would be unique to the pin. Once they found the pin in the grandmohter's purse it was case closed.

2. Explain how Grissom figured out that the blow fly data in Mark Thayer's was incorrect.

The flys found on the pigs, found a toxin that was spraied on the pigs skin. THis delays the time for flys to lay eggs, which can be delayed up to 4 days. The first round of eggs were laied inside the body, but it was only found when the pig was tested for toxins.