Posts Tagged ‘death and smell’
And the Corpse Rides Shotgun Follow-Up
30, Oct 2010Portrait Emerges of Woman Whose Mummified Body was Found in Car Joseph Serna, Los Angeles Times (October 28, 2010) Last week I wrote about a California news item which involved the police finding a dead body in a car. A few days ago, the Los Angeles Times did a follow-up piece and as I suspected [...]
And the Corpse Rides Shotgun
22, Oct 2010Woman Drove Around With Mummified Body Salvador Hernandez and Greg Hardesty, The Orange County Register (October 22, 2010) I am a little surprised that only a few people sent me this recent decomposing-dead-body-in-the-news article. Like so many of the other dead body stories on Death Ref this particular California tale is both macabre and sad. [...]
Murder?! The Maggots Are on It
11, Jun 2010Crime 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 [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + Biology|Death + Crime
- Tags: animals, anthropology, death and smell, decomposition, forensics, homicide, research
Lolcats? No, Death Cat.
11, Feb 2010The story of Oscar, the “Death Cat”, is making the rounds these days. From articles in Discover and the New England Journal of Medicine, to an episode of House to a recent posting on this Danish death-related blog, AND a newly published book, this cat gets around—but only if you’re about to die! Oscar is [...]
- By: Kim
- In: Death + Biology
- Tags: animals, death and smell, pets
The Last Post on Haiti’s Dead
27, Jan 2010In Haiti, A Proper Burial is in Short Supply Frances Robles, Nadege Charles and Elinor J. Breche, Miami Herald (January 25, 2010) This will be the last post, for a while, on the dead bodies in Haiti. I decided to run this Miami Herald article because it does a good job of summing up the [...]
- By: John
- In: Burial|Death + Disaster
- Tags: death and smell, Haiti Earthquake