Posts Tagged ‘forensics’
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
Postmortem on Frontline’s Post Mortem
10, Feb 2011Post Mortem: Death Investigation in America Frontline, NPR, and Pro Publica (February 01, 2011) Go Go Frontline. There are moments in this documentary on postmortem examinations in America and the attached medical-legal investigative personnel that made me physically groan. Out loud. And then slap my forehead. None of the dead body images elicited any kind [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + Crime|Death + Technology|Death + the Law
- Tags: decomposition, forensics, video
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
Indigent Burials Are on the Rise Katie Zezima, The New York Times (October 11, 2009) Regular readers of the Death Reference Desk will recognize that the nationwide increase in indigent burials is a significant trend. Since this summer, when Death Ref launched, we have routinely posted articles on the uptick in unclaimed dead bodies under [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + the Economy|Funeral Industry
- Tags: decomposition, forensics, unclaimed bodies, video