Archive for the ‘Death + Crime’ Category
Unexplained Dollhouse Deaths in LONDON
27, Nov 2011Of Dolls and Murder UK Premier Horse Hospital in London (November 30, 2011) “Of Dolls & Murder”: The World’s First True Crime Puppet Show Colin Covert, Star Tribune (September 27, 2011) Of Dolls and Murder Bruce Goldfarb, Welcome to Baltimore, Hon! (September 25, 2010) This is a Death Reference Desk post which begins in December [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + Crime|Death + Popular Culture
- Tags: films, forensics, video
Under Recent Policy, Cook County Begins Donating Unclaimed Bodies after 2 Weeks Cadavers that are left in morgue are given to medical research Becky Schlikerman, William Lee and Ronnie Reese, Chicago Tribune (October 04, 2011) Medical Examiner: Families Who Object to Body Donation Can Opt for Burial Becky Schlikerman, Chicago Tribune (October 05, 2011) There [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + Crime|Death + the Economy|Death + the Law|Death Ethics
- Tags: bioethics, forensics
Yes, He Sold Fakes. They Are Supposed to Be Fake. Jeffrey E. Singer and Corey Kilgannon, The New York Times (August 24, 2011) Paper imitations of luxury items are traditional at Chinese funerals as gifts for the dead, but a seller of cardboard handbags was arrested on copyright-infringement charges on Tuesday. Ok ok. So the [...]
- By: John
- In: Cremation|Death + Crime|Death + Popular Culture|Death + the Law
- Tags: China, cremains, Cremation, funerals
On the Death of Osama Bin Laden
9, May 2011Watery Grave, Murky Law Leor Halevi, New York Times (May 08, 2011) Osama bin Laden’s burial at sea and the history of Shariah. Bin Laden Exits the Scene On the Media, WNYC and National Public Radio (May 06, 2011) It has been one week since President Obama announced that Osama Bin Laden was dead. I [...]
12:31 – Killer Photos
4, Apr 2011Project 12:31 Croix Gagnon and Frank Schott via Today and Tomorrow, “12:31″ All DeathRef bloggers will one day answer for their sins of gratuitous and gauche headline puns. But, wow, you gotta check this out. Using cross-sectional cadaver slides from the Visible Human Project as source material, Croix Gagnon and Frank Schott piece together haunting [...]