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Down on the body farm: Unlocking the forensic secrets of decaying corpses (2019)

• WJW 5y ago
  This type of super-specialized infrastructure always fascinates me. Clearly there is a lot of value for forensic investigators to have a dedicated site for this kind of research, but there is a fairly limited amount of demand too so there will never be a lot of these sites. I once went to a dedicated submarine command simulator that could pivot in 3 dimensions like a flight simulator and had the same feeling.
• every 5y ago
  "I hate the living..." -- Dr. Weaver
• DantesKite 5y ago
  On a somewhat related note, this reminds me of all the botched hair analysis done in the 1970s and 80s that ended up imprisoning a lot of innocent people, including a man who was falsely accused of raping Alice Sebold and set free these past few months after decades in prison. So I hope forensic science continues to improve and done so under rigorous standards. https://www.retroreport.org/articles/an-overturned-conviction-magnifies-flaws-in-a-discredited-forensic-technique/#:~:text=A%20rape%20conviction%20from%20nearly,been%20debunked%3A%20microscopic%20hair%20analysis https://www.retroreport.org/articles/an-overturned-convictio....
  • boomboomsubban 5y ago
    Not botched, fraudulent. The FBI knew several areas of forensics had no scientific merit yet continued to send "experts" to get convictions. And it continued at least until the 00's, the huge report detailing how bad thongs were came out around 08.