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91 Year Old’s Pennsylvania Corpse Abuse Case is Complicated

8, Jul 2010

Widow Lives with Corpses of Husband, Twin Michael Rubinkam, The Associated Press (July 05, 2010) DA: Woman can Keep Corpses in Crypt Michael Rubinkam, The Associated Press (July 07, 2010) No charges yet for disinterring her kin I am going to guess that more than a few people saw this story earlier in the week. [...]

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  • By: John
  • In: Burial|Death + Crime|Death + the Law
  • Tags: corpse abuse, living with the dead
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Charles Bowden on Juarez

19, Jun 2010

Dreamland: The Way out of Juarez On The Media (June 4, 2010) Earlier this week I wrote about the drug-cartel murders in Juarez, Mexico, and mentioned Charles Bowden, a journalist who has been covering the situation for over a decade. He recently spoke with On The Media about a new book, Dreamland: The Way Out [...]

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  • By: Meg Holle
  • In: Death + Art / Architecture|Death + Crime|Death Ethics
  • Tags: homicide, Mexico, writing
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Librarian in New Mexico Collates Murders in Juarez

16, Jun 2010

A Gruesome Reckoning: Librarian Sifts Mexican Press to Tally Drug-Cartel-Related Killings in Juárez Ana Campoy, Wall Street Journal (June 15, 2010) With 2,633 homicides in 2009, murder in Juarez, Mexico, is out of control. Much of the violence is related to drug trafficking, accounting for gang on gang and police killings. But civilians are attacked, [...]

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  • By: Meg Holle
  • In: Death + Crime
  • Tags: books, homicide, informatics, Mexico
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Murder?! The Maggots Are on It

11, Jun 2010

Crime Scene Insects BBC World Service (June 11, 2010) This episode of BBC Documentaries explores forensic entomology: “the investigation of insects recovered from crime scenes and corpses.” Guests include Amoret Whitaker of the Natural History Museum in London, who studies the flies and maggots that congregate on corpses to find clues about the time and [...]

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  • By: Meg Holle
  • In: Death + Biology|Death + Crime
  • Tags: animals, anthropology, death and smell, decomposition, forensics, homicide, research
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Kevorkian Revisited

31, Mar 2010

Independent Minds: Dr. Jack Kevorkian (Listen to the audio) Heard an interesting public radio broadcast this evening. It’s a series titled “Independent Minds” and tonight’s profile featured Dr. Jack Kevorkian. The show illuminates, through interviews, audio clips and sound bites, the life of the controversial “Dr. Death” and attempts to separate and dissect the man [...]

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  • By: Kim
  • In: Death + Crime|Death + Popular Culture|Death + the Law|Death Ethics|Suicide
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