Caroline

Handling Bodies**
 * Chapter 2

Death Investigator (DI)- is a medical examiner or coroner -Have been through a 5 year residency and another year of training in a medical examiners office -Must determine several things about the death- How it occurred, when it happened, and what caused the death 5 categories of death 1. natural 2. accidental 3. suicide 4. homicide 5. undetermined - Almost all bodies should be investigated, even some deaths caused by natural death - Outside body discoveries are categorized in 3 ways: buried, exposed, in water Time of Death DI makes an approximated guess of the time of death of the body by looking at 7 things 1. Body temperature 2. Discoloration 3. Rigor Mortis- stiff body 4. Ocular indicators- eyes 5. Food digestion 6. Personal Factors 7. Decay/Decomposition rates -different climates and temperatures affect this

-Insects and their activity in relation to the body can tell a DI a lot The Autopsy - "A postmortem examination of a corpse to determine manner and cause of death for an official report." - There are partial, selective or complete autopsies -Each cause of death can be examined in its own way and have specific traits that let them know the cause of death. -If an organ is needed to be further examined it is put in a bag and preserved. Otherwise it is placed back in the body to be buried.

ID Unknown**
 * Chapter 3

-The first thing to do when a body is found is identify the body -"Identification of an unknown person may involve anything from databases to anthropology to forensic art." -Missing person database can be very useful -match a missing person with an unidentified body Missing person report includes: -full physical description, photo, clothes worn, where the person was last seen, hobbies, habits, tattoos, scars, medical history, etc. J. Doe report includes: - gender, age, height, weight, dental features, blood type, scars, medical evidence, fingerprints, full description of body -Relatives are often asked to identify a dead body

- insects relationship with the time of death -flies are attracted to blood -highest total amount of insects on the carcass was in the summer -decomposition is faster in open areas -flies stop flying in the winter, so they do not lay eggs or nest on bodies buried during the cooler days Different stages of flies in decomposition 1. blowflies--&gt; lay eggs by the hundreds 2. eggs hatch in to maggots 3. yellow jackets and wasps came 4. carrion beetles came They thought of the idea to track the flies to see if the same ones came back day to day-- 3 of 5 came back the next day
 * Death's Acre P. 100-107**


 * Kiss Kiss Bye Bye- CSI**

It starts off in a formal party with what seems to be an older crowd. The Crime Scene Investigators find a dead body of a young male waiter in the closet of the house where the party was being held. There is a safe and there were bullet marks where a bullet had ricocheted off. Louis O’Neil is the lady holding the party in her house, and when the investigators open the safe Ms. O’Neil is in safe hiding. On the dead body there was a crack pipe and a lot of cash. A Handkerchief was hanging on the balcony. One of the Investigators dad was at the party, who was friends with Tony and Louis O’Neil. The young girl performer is a suspect because she was out of the room when the victim was killed. She also had a crack pipe in her purse. The girl suspect admitted to being outside but said she was giving her body guard a “birthday present” and that’s how she scrapped her knees. Under the floor of Miss O’Neil’s bedroom there is 1 million dollars. She says she doesn’t know why it is there. On the video the zoom in on a piece of paper being exchanged to a car. The paper was a boarding pass out of the country with a girl named Nancy. It was Nancy’s car that the boarding pass was being handed to. Nancy boarded the plane they were both supposed to be on, even though the victim was dead and not there. The autopsy shows that the victim was shot and then shot again at least 10 minutes later. This does not agree with Miss O’Neil’s story. She does not have a valid explanation for this. The Crime Scene Investigator’s mom is in her office and she happens to have the same type handkerchief that was hanging off the balcony at the Crime Scene. The mother said she got it from Sam, who was a suspect of the murder and the Investigators dad. On Louis’s ring there was gun residue. This means she could have been the killer and she is now under investigation. The investigators walk upstairs to bring Louis in and she is dead on her bed. She has been shot. They find out the boarding passes were purchased by either Louis or Eve Gerard. They find out in the autopsy Louis has very advanced cancerous tumors, and would have died soon anyways. What really happened was Louis had planned for the victim (Tim) to kill her during her party so that she wouldn’t just die of cancer. She knew she was going to die anyways. So what happened was Louis caught Tim stealing from her before he was about to kill her and she was mad so she shot him. Then her body guard ended up shooting her a couple days later like she had planned for Tim to do originally. This way she didn’t die from cancer and she could die while she was still beautiful.

Methods to determine and analyze blood: Use blue lazer to search for blood in the sisters room. She finds blood on the carpet and under the bed.

There are two girls in the bed, and one walks down and the guy (aaron) is dead in the garage. They had all been out partying. One of the girls who has brown hair said she had been cleaning right before he was killed. This girl had known aaron for six months and they lived together. Aaron was a profesional motorcross racer, and she was a fashion girl. She claims to have the worst luck with men. She cleans a lot, and bleaches everything in her house. The other girl in the house with blonde hair was on drugs. Apparently they all were on drugs, and do that when they go out clubbing. The CSI agents find a spot of blood upstairs in the brunettes room. In the garage where the guy was killed they find a bullet in a soda can. The man died by being stabbed. The victim did not have an gun residue on his hands, so it was not him who fired the gun. The blood on the carpet is from a former boyfriend of the brunette. This guy claims to have been shot in her room 6 months ago, in the leg. The bullet was still in his leg. There is a screw driver our of place in the garage, and the finger prints of Tom on it. The CSI agents find him and talk to him. The blonde lady (chelsea) is the brunette (bianca's) mom. The dad of bianca and wife of chelsea is a suspect now. Chelsea slept with aaron, who was bianca's boyfriend. Bianca walked in a caught them and that was the night aaron was killed. They walk in to find Bianca and she is out. She has been beat up/raped. There is sticky stuff on her neck which is found on telephone poles. Tom is brought back in as a suspect. They look at bianca's call times, and it appears that tom is a very big suspect now. He killed Aaron with his boot thing. He then raped Bianca later on and that is when she was raped/beat up. Chelsea and Tom were in this together.
 * Daddy's Little Girl- CSI**

Next scene is in a big car garage. A car hit the girl and pinned her against the wall. It was by her own car and in her own parking spot. A girl named kelly is a suspect, but she just left to go out of town. Kelly was a client of the dead girl (Sylvia). They caught a frame of the killer turning the focus ring on the camera, and it shows the burns on kelly's palms. They go to arrest Kelly and she OD's and dies.

DNA forensics involves identifiying a dead body, or a suspect by their blood or body fluids. -Find DNA in body Fluids (blood, saliva, sperm, etc.) - It is used to identify suspects, dead bodies, family relations, identify organ donors, etc.
 * DNA Forensics**

-criminal profiling- using research from convicted murders and crime scene evidence to make a portrait of the killers -murders in Atlanta of boys--> one of the first times to use criminal profiling -people came to try to make a profile of the serial killer -someone who could move comfortable throughout the neighborhood without standing out -Interviewed many famous serial killers around the world to figure more stuff out about criminal profiling FBI issued their profile-- black male in early to mid twenties who was living or comfortable in the community -hair and fiber evidence found on bodies which was strong evidence in connecting all the murders together -found murdered when he was dumping a body -kept the murdered under close watch and at this time the murders stopped -fibers and hairs matched up that connected him to the murders -predicted Williams would fake sick, and this actually happened -profilers are very strong with their predictions -continued to construct a "profile wheel" and rage in the trial was a big part of the construction of that wheel
 * Criminal Profiling**

-In Alaska there were many murders of women dancers/prostitutes -they discovered a body that could only be reached by airplane, and the only person on the suspect list with a plane was Robert -The people creating the profile do not want to know about the suspect, but instead about the victims -profile- comfortable with the outdoors, hunter, comfortable with the place he dumped the bodies, may stutter, poor self image, -maps found in his house, and on the maps there were marks on the places where bodies had already been found

-In Lexington a senior girl in high school went missing from her car -phone call with the kidnapper saying he had the girl (Shari) -The kidnapper continued to call the home and he gave her directions to go somewhere -The body was found and she had been strangled at this location -Agents looked at this murder and it was a different murder than others he had dealt with before -profile- white male, shy and polite to strangers, considered over weight and unattractive to others, in his 30's, flexibility in his job, previous arrests -another 9 year old girl abducted a few days after Shari's body was found -The kidnapper gave more directions to the abducted girl who was dead -found a number and followed up on that -gave the profile to the couple that lived at this residence and they told him about a man who fit the profile-- Larry Bell -Larry bell was arrested and admitted to killing them in an interview with Douglas (profiler)

Serial Killers

Jeffery Dahmer -responsible for the deaths of atleast 17 men and boys -Born in 1960, and lived mainly in Ohio -was molested as a child -parents got divorced--> he and his father lived together and he never really saw his mom and brother -In High school he was kind of an outsider -people were kind of spooked by him, and would sometimes say things about killing men -He first murdered someone when he was 18, but then went 9 years without killing -was charged with child molestation during those 9 years -went in to the army for a little, but was discharged due to drunkenness -maybe alcoholic -moved to Wisconsin and worked in a factory -found out about gay bars and then began killing again at age 27 -take guy from gay bars back to his house, would then spike the drinks of the guys, and then kill them, and then mutulate them -almost all his killings were on minority groups

The Green River Killer -He grew up in Washington -Mom very controlling over him -killed all young girls to adults, strangled them often, and then threw them in the river -killed over 49 young women and girls -would have sex with the victims multiple times after he killed them

Bruce Mendenhall -raised in Illinois -married with 2 daughters -Once ran for Mayor, but came 3rd out of 3 -strange but not mean or unfriendly -victims were mostly young prostitutes at truck stops -arrested July 12, 2007 in Nashville -DNA of five different women were found in his truck -confessed to six killings

Theodore Kaczynski -first bomb in 1978 -total of 16 bombs -killed 3 people and injured 23 -arrested in 1995 and tried in 1996 -set his bombs by hand and would send them by mail -sent a lot of false evidence -wrote a paper about what he thought -criminal profiling was right on target with how he really was -attempted to hand himself during the trial

Charles Manson -Set the school on fire when he was 9 years old -at 13 he was committing armed robberies and multiple crimes -sent to another school for boys and was claimed to be raped and beaten there -he had followers who followed Manson and helped him kill people -raised in prison and looked at life very differently because of this -prison was the only real home he had known and he asked to stay in prison even when he was sent away -his followers would always have sex, often for power and control -they all had a connection and felt the same way -the followers believed whatever Manson would say or do -Charles Manson met up with the Beach Boys, and became friends with them -Charles Manson would condition his followers to believe everything he believed -Manson killed a black drug dealer who he also thought was a black panther, and he became very tense and parnoid that the black panthers were going to come after him -Manson gathered the followers one night and then went and killed at least 5 people -Charlie got his followers to kill people -Manson was never physically at the murder scenes, but he demanded the followers to kill all the people that were killed -Each follower of Manson was founded guilty of 1st degree murder and planning to murder -the supreme court overcame their sentence to the death penalty -They are all 4 still in prison -the girls regret what they did and feel bad, but Manson is still angry and wants to kill

How was Charles Manson the same as the other serial killers that we studied? Charles Manson was the same as many of the other serial killers we studied because he was crazy. Anyone who goes around killing people like that, feeling no guilt, must be crazy, and Charles Manson was very much crazy, and felt no guilt for doing what he did. He did not see what he had done wrong, and did not regret it. He was not caught for a while, so he must have been criminally smart, as many serial killers must be. A serial killer must have a certain intelligence to be able to get away with as many murders as 4 over time and not get caught, just as Charles Manson killed people, and got his group to kill people over time without being caught. He was socially awkward, and different than "normal", just as many other serial killers have been. Charles Manson was aggressive and a criminal from the time he was 9 years old, as many other serial killers we have studied started committing crimes at a young age.

-How was Charles Manson different from other serial killers? Charles Manson was different than other serial killers because he did not kill over 4 people. He killed one or two people himself, but planned and made his followers kill all the others. Other defined serial killers have done the act of killing over 4 people, while Charles Manson did not physically kill over 4 people. Instead, Charles Manson had a group of followers in the 20's who became followers of Manson. At first the just did drugs together, traveled together, and lived together like a big family. Over time Charles Manson managed to gain control over the group, and got them to a point where they would do anything he told them to do, even kill people. The group did all the killings for him. Therefore, this makes him different than other defined serial killers.

In terms of the definitions we presented in class, does Charles Manson classify as a serial killer? A serial killer is defined as some one who kills 4 or more people on purpose. Charles Manson did not kill 4 or more people, so he can't be defined as a serial killer. He can be defined as a murdered though, for killing the black male drug dealer, and plotted many murders. Charles Manson was the brains and controller of many murders, but this can't define some one as a serial killer. Therefore, Charles Manson is not a serial killer in my opinion, but he is very evil, and crazy, and deserves the life sentence in jail that he has received.

DNA Forensics -PCR- polymerase chain reaction-technique used to make copies of DNA-"Amplification" Advantage- the amplification process can be limited to specific area's of the sequence. -DNA- genetic instructions -try to find the 2 percent that are different for everyone -DNA comes from cells, and in all your cells the DNA is the same for you -Mitochondrial DNA comes from your mom only -must amplify the basis- Adenine, Thymine, Guanine, Cytosine

To Identify or compares someone's DNA Step 1- DENATURE through heat Step 2-ANNEAL- copying Step 3- EXTEND- pairing up to make the copy AMPLIFICATION--> copying happens over 95 cycles

Dial M for Murder Predictions Tony has been setting both Mark and Margot up the whole time. Eventually Mark will find out Tony set it all up. Mark seems to be on to figuring out the whole plan, because he suggested they fake it. Somehow Mark is going to find out this is all true, then Tony is going to try to kill Mark, and just before Tony kills Mark the detective is going to come in and save him at the last minutes. Tony is going to be caught, and they will figure out everything that actually happened and that Tony actually tried to kill the wife in the first place. Tony will be executed and the wife and Mark will life happily ever after. They will somehow get caught with either the evidence from the 2 keys, or from the letter.

Blood Lab Report The line formed between the Human Antiserum (HA) and Human Serum (HS) and on the other side where the question mark is, the line formed between ?S and HA. Therefore, the ?S has to be Human Serum (HS). We can conclude from this that the blood is from a human source.