For part of my independent study I read the book Unnatural Exposure, by Patricia Cornwell. The book is a murder mystery with a large focus on the forensic aspects of the investigation. The main character in the book is Dr. Kay Scarpetta, a medical examiner form Virginia. She is recently divorced and live in an apartment by herself. She could be described as a workaholic since she spends all of her time thinking and working on her cases. She is always the first person to arrive at the morgue and the last to leave.
As the book begins, Dr. Scarpetta is called to a crime scene at a garbage dump in Virginia. When she gets there she soon realizes that it must be a horrific scene
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As the communication went on DEADDOC mailed her actual pictures of the arms and legs lying in pools of blood. The FBI tried very hard to find out were DEADDOC was plugged in to a phone jack but he was never on line long enough to track him down. This became very frustrating for Kay and she tried to move on to other cases.
The next scene Dr. Kay Scarpetta was called to was on a remote island right off the shores of Virginia. When she arrived at the scene she was told that it was a woman and she was found dead in her bead. The local cops also warned the doctor that the dead woman had bumps and welts all over her body. Thinking nothing of this information Kay walked up the stairs into the bedroom and began to investigate the scene. When she pulled back the sheets she was shocked. Dr. Scarpetta was looking at the woman and started feeling extremely uneasy. She had seen these types of bumps and wounds before. They looked like some sort of smallpox disease. As soon as she made the connection to this highly infectious disease Kay ran out of the room. The whole Island had to be quarantined and Dr. Scarpetta was put into solitary confinement until they were sure she was not infected.
After she got out of confinement she realized that she had seen some similar bumps on the torso she had been examining earlier. The two crimes were now
When I tell my friends and family members that my lifelong dream is to become a Medical Examiner, they assume that I enjoy the sense of blood and gore. To most people, being a Medical Examiner involves dealing with the dead, and they picture corpses in silver metal sliding drawers and incisions being made into ice-cold flesh. But I do not see that when I think about my future career. Instead, I see comfort and satisfactory. I perceive a long journey of schooling ahead of me followed by a rewarding career that will benefit myself and the community in the future. Being a Medical Examiner is not about the dead. It is about the living. Medical Examiners are responsible for the investigation in unnatural or suspicious deaths. They perform autopsies
The case I chose to write on is based on a DVD that we watched in class called ‘Beaten by a hair’. In this case, a woman was reported missing after she went to work and never returned home. After the police discovered a bloody pillow case in the woods, near her house, they linked it to the missing pillow case in the woman’s room, and then realized that they had a murder case on their hands. A mystery in the case was that one of the local neighbors had mentioned seeing the woman leave through the front door of her house but the evidence says different, so investigators had to find out who left the house that morning. I am interested in this case because it was very intriguing how the forensic officers put all the pieces
The sick girl was so scared that she was terrified of her own shadow. One day after the Reverend Parris had left, the slave started to show the other girls a serpent that was in a jar glass.She told all the girls that had gathered together that if they asked the serpent any question that it will answer it. The youngest girl that was already petrified started screaming and soon the older sister started screaming as if she was getting
An emergency call came in at 9:45 am made by Doug Greene who is a neighbor of the victim Anna Garcia claiming that he had not seen Anna Garcia since her normal morning walk at 6:30 am the previous morning and that the dog had been barking for 2 hours, he had also mentioned that Anna Garcia was wearing a sweater when he had seen her the previous morning while experiencing a 92 degree heat wave. Mr.Greene had called Anna’s telephone with no answer, and had also rang the doorbell with no answer. The EMT and local police had arrived to the scene at 9:56 am, needing to break the door down. EMS discovered Anna Garcia laying face down, dead.
The book gave me an abundance of information from an expert medical examiner that I thought were essential to the determination of a person’s death. I have also read many books from 24/7 and I really take interest in the style of which the book is written in, therefore, knowing that I was going to like this selection. This book gave me a sense of definition as to what my passion will be from the cover and title itself: forensics. Ultimately, I was drawn in by the overall subject, the questions I had, and what information I was eager to learning from this
Anna Garcia died unexpectedly on a hot summer day. The EMT broke down the door and found Anna lying face down on the floor. The case is being investigated. The persons of interest are Alex Garcia, Anna’s former husband; Doug Greene, Anna’s neighbor; Erica Piedmont, Alex’s new wife; and Lucy Leffingwell, Anna’s best friend. The person who is most suspicious of having something to do with Anna’s death is her former husband, Alex Garcia.
Ms. Black comes into the emergency room screaming that her house is on fire and she has multiple burns. The physician and the nurse assess the patient thoroughly and are unable to find any burns on her body. Meanwhile, Ms. Black is screaming she hears voices and they are all coming to get her.
There was a couple named Kiowa and Muraco. They've been together for 8 years. They had a beautiful, healthy baby girl. Her name was Cherokee. Kiowa and Muraco loved Cherokee so much but they knew they couldn't keep Cherokee because they were poor. They had no money to take care of Cherokee. Everyday they struggled to find food and water. Days went by and Kiowa was starting to get sick. Each day it got worse and worse. Her skin was turning red, her eyes were puffy and she constantly coughed and sneezed. Kiowa told Muraco she didn't feel good and she felt like she was going to die soon. On the fourth day, Kiowa died and Muraco was left to raise Cherokee by himself. Muraco knew nothing about raising kids. He was scared. He didn't know what to do so he decided to find help.
Early the next morning of December 8th, the lifeless body of Debbie Carter was found strangled in her small apartment. The murder of Debbie Carter flipped this small, rural, bible-belt, town on its head. People were outraged, overwhelmed, and stunned that such a thing could happen in this town to a young, beautiful girl whom everyone had known. This gruesome act put enormous pressure on local law enforcement to find the atrocious criminal. Finger prints, hair, and blood spatter was carefully collected from the scene.
However, Tempe Chandler’s definition is slightly challenged: Tempe is a woman, and he completely ignores that such a detective does not have to be a man. Dr. Tempe Brennan is a forensic analyst who specializes in the study of bones, but when murders increasingly occur in her city of Montréal, she develops an interest in the cases and is eager to help to solve the crimes. Tempe’s readiness and dedication to work are qualities that Chandler holds vital to his definition of a detective, and it is clear that Tempe possesses these traits from the beginning of the novel. When Tempe first learns that a body has appeared mutilated and separated into trash bags, she cancels her weekend plans because she knows that she is “irresolute about [her] social life, obsessive in [her] work” (Reichs 2).
Crime scene investigation and medical examiner television shows are always interesting and exciting to watch, but what happens when you make the contents of that television show your life? Often times, the one you see doing the investigating with not only the body at the scene, but also inspecting the body of the victim in their exam room is called the Forensic Pathologist. A Forensic Pathologist is often called to the scenes where a death has occurred so that they can legally gather information and observations so that they can proceed with the investigation. For example, they will try to find the time of death. It is very important that the forensic pathologist be contacted very early on in the investigation, due to the amount of evidence that needs to be overlooked. Forensic pathologists are educated as physicians, and are also licensed for the practice of medicine. Regional tests are given, which means that if you decide to move at any time after taking the regional test, you will be required to take it again if you move to a new state. Autopsies are a daily occurrence, and the goal of the forensic pathologist is to recreate the series of events that led up to the death of the victim.
A Comparison of Dulce Et Decorum Est and Exposure Traditional war poetry gives the idea of patriotic idealism of war. This style of poetry implies that war is patriotic and that people who fight for their country are honorable. But many of the poets do not portray war as it really is, by glossing over the gory details with attractive images. Many traditional war poems were written before the war to persuade and encourage young boys to become loyal soldiers.
This paper discusses the different roles that are taken on by a forensic psychologist, and how those roles interact and affect each other and how the psychologist is about to do his/her job. It looks briefly at the history of the field. We discuss the forensic psychologist as the consultant, the therapist, the researcher, as well as the expert witness. This paper also discusses predicting dangerousness and whether or not an expert can predict dangerousness. Finally we look at conflicting roles and ethics in the field.
From time immemorial, man has been fascinated with behavioral deviations from the normative particularly in the context of crime, or more generally, morality. In fact, classical playwrights and novelists such as Shakespeare and Dostoevsky owe their literary success to their incredible ability to glare into socially and morally deviant minds and weave stories around them. We see a similar trend today. Much of primetime television is filled with shows that have experienced psychoanalysts chasing sophisticated and grossly deviant criminals or some variation of this general theme. The general public tends to relate to the job of a forensic psychologists to that of a cat chasing a mouse. Forensic psychology, however, is a far less
Over the years, many people have believed that the issue of sexual harassment should not be discussed in public. Sexual harassment was to be discussed behind closed doors. In spite of this, the social and political systems have changed instantaneously. This social problem has affected men and women throughout time; however, it seems that the women of our society more closely look at this issue. This social topic has encouraged women to establish organizations in order to help them discuss the issues more openly and to demand equality including fairness and justice throughout the workplace and in their social lives as well. In recent years, sexual harassment has been one of the most serious and widespread problems