Secrets+and+Flies+RY

__Episode Questions__

1. Describe how the CSI team knew that the suicide note was forged. After the crime scene was examined, it was found that the bullet could not have entered the victim's head at the angle that it did if the victim was holding the gun. Suicide was physically impossible according to the phyical evidence. Also, the pen that wrote the note was found in the purse of the mother of the woman who gave the unborn child to the victim.

2. Explain how Grissom figured out that the blow fly data in Mark Thayer's was incorrect. Grissom read in forensic textbooks that blow flies take a shorter amount of time to lay their eggs than presented in Thayer's experiment. At first, he could not understand how Thayer's experiment was modified. But eventually he figured out that Thayer had a toxin sprayed on the test pig's body to delay the flyies' life cycle. Since the flies took longer than normal to lay their eggs, it was presented that it would have been impossible for the defendent to be at the scene of the crime at the time the crime was committed. Of course, the defendent was really there because the test was falsified. Both Thayer and the defendent in the trial were sent to jail.