The Zoo Man Murders is a case that shows that in the court of law there are ways to go around the law. That is why forensic anthropologies and scientist are very important to the law system, because sometimes they are the only ones with the power to show what really happened. This case was narrated and explained in great detail in the book “Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales” by William Bass. In February 27 of 1992 a prostitute reported a “John” who hired her and drove her to Cahaba Lane, in her report she said that this man rob, rape and beat her and left her tied up in the woods. That same day detective Tom Pressley decided to investigate a little more and drove the woman to Cahaba …show more content…
They used a formula developed back in the 1950’s. They measured the length of the left femur, 44.4 centimeters they plugged into the formula and he stature calculation were that she was 5’3 inches tall. After the stature the next step was to conclude a manner of death. The body showed no sign of trauma. The answer lied in the Hyoid bone, the one bone that can reveal if someone has been strangled or not. Her hyoid bone was in three pieces, but that doesn’t mean it was broken. For some people the Hyoid bone never fully ossifies and instead is joined by cartilage. With this into consideration her Hyoid bone was either broken off or just a simple victim of decomposition. The forensic team used a scanning electron microscope. The results showed tiny linear fractures in the bone which indicated that she was indeed strangled to …show more content…
The first technique was to graph the correlation between the body’s advanced state of decomposition, and the pattern of daytime and nighttime temperatures. This technique let to the conclusion that she was killed from October 6 to 16. The second technique was to get soil samples, one from beneath the victim’s body and the other from an uncontaminated control sample. The results narrow the window to October 12 to 15. The last technique used was relatively new and involved using a freshly killed pig and using this pig as a “body double.” The result of this technique indicated that the victim was killed between October 9 and 13. Using three different techniques they obtained very similar data. The last piece to solve this puzzle was to identify the victim. They got a fingerprint from the victim but there was not a match in the database. They move on into the missing people report in which they found a woman name, Darlene Smith who matched all of their forensic evidence. They went into her house and got a fingerprint from a document that she had sign before disappearing and the fingerprint were indeed a match to the
The fingerprint found at the crime scene belonged to Alex Garcia, Anna’s former husband. His fingerprint was characterized as a plain arch and that was found at the crime scene. The blood sample at the crime scene belongs to Alex Garcia. The shoe print that was found at the crime scene belongs to is Anna Garcia. The hair sample at the crime scene belonged to Anna Garcia.
The scene was documented by a scene sketch that was on graph paper with a scale of 3 boxes= 1 foot. Victim, Anna Garcia, is 38 years old, hispanic, female with a height of 64 inches and a weight of 165. According to the autopsy report, clothes are not torn but have blood stains on them. There was a small amount of vomit on the shoulder area of the blouse. Garcia’s head is normally shaped and has medium long, black hair.
Amicus Brief New Jersey v. Cavallo (1982) Parties: Defendants are two individuals challenging the New Jersey law on the admissibility of expert testimony. Plaintiff is the State of New Jersey. Facts: On June 16, 1977, Murro invited the victim, a married woman who was two months pregnant, to smoke marijuana with Cavallo in the parking lot. They later agreed to go smoke at Cavallo’s house but ended up in an empty field. According to the alleged victim, both defendants abducted and raped her.
This was achieved by identifying the suspect. According to the gel, suspect number two’s DNA was found at the crime scene. This is known because the crime scene DNA and suspect two’s DNA both traveled the same distanced. And said before DNA is very polymorphic; no two pieces of DNA will be the same when cut by the same enzyme (Edvotek, 2014). This is also shown in Hyun-Jung Choi’s lap report.
Her body was severed in two, her entrails were tucked
The death of the decomp traces as the doctor explains come from 20-100 years ago, as he explains this finding doesn’t mean it will help to determine whether or not if it was murder or not. On the other hand, these said findings are no doubt consistent with detective hodel’s theory of murder victims buried in shallow graves over a century ago. in the article by nbc news dr. Vass says this newly found evidence could more than likely clear about ten cases that are attached to this evidence found by both him and
Someone tried to give her mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to revive her in an attempt to do so someone tried to tie a tourniquet around her arm to stop the profusely bleeding from one of the gunshot wounds. While, she was lying on the ground she was still partially alive and breathing while, still was making gurgling sounds but, she wouldn’t make it through because of the gruesome head wounds. After she stopped breathing they covered her body to preserve the body and the evidence. The detective went around the house to the marble staircase and to the master bedroom where he would being to piece the crime scene together piece by piece
I have recently inquired information about a specific investigation that went on a few months back. The investigation had informed the intelligent investigators that there had been a death at a particular house. Now this death was very unusual, because the man that had been found dead was under a truck crushed by the vehicle engine. The unusual thing about it was that the man had worked with this specific type of vehicle for quite a long time. When the investigators got to the home of the man they found him underneath the truck and the garage was on fire.
After the burial ended, Zusak explained that “Still in disbelief, she started to dig. He couldn’t be dead. He couldn’t be dead. He couldn’t-- Within seconds, snow was carved into her skin. Frozen blood was cracked across her hands” (Zusak 23).
I read The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. I would say the main theme of this book is death. I find that the main theme in this book is death because the child Nobody Owens “Bod” loses his family when they get killed by a man named Jack at age one. As his family is being murdered he sneaks out of his crib, out of the house and he wanders up at hill to a graveyard where he sees a woman standing who turns out to be a ghost and her husband soon appears to. They adopt him after his dead mother comes to them in the graveyard as a ghost and begs them to protect him from Jack and so they raise him as their own child.
“But the evidence will show he directed her off the highway to a dark, secluded where he strangled her with a rope and threw her body off a bridge.” Desloup stated (pg 1). As stated in the case, the murder weapon was a rope, as she died because of strangulation. After the murder,
The discovery of a dead body become a homicide case when during the preliminary investigation of police, it appears that there is a foul play involve in the nature of how the victim died. Homicide case is handled by homicide investigator. During homicide investigation, one of the important and primary part towards giving a victim justice he or she deserved is to find out the time he or she was killed. Because without such piece of information the case will go to nowhere. Therefore, in this paper I am going to discuss the importance of determining time of death in a homicide case and the method used in determining the time of death of a homicide victim.
(Intro) A fisherman found a naked body lying on the floor, around her neck there was some purple staining, which is an indication of strangulation. The shoulder ties of her tank top had been neatly cut, and the back of the best was cut through and through. Wounds on her correct wrist, demonstrate that she had been tied up. Twigs and leaves found in her bra demonstrates she had been dragged.
“Forensic anthropologist usually works in three broad categories,” said Texas State professor Jerry Melbye.” A Forensic Anthropologist help examine a human skeletal or decomposed remains in a legal setting to establish the identity of an unknown individual and to help determine the cause of death. A Forensic Anthropology work to find the individual that was murdered or was a homicide. They need to find the biological profile of that person.
LEGAL ASSIGNMENT: HAYLEY MILES COURT CASE: R V MURPHY FACTS: On February 2nd 1986 a 26 year old women by the name of Anita Lorraine Cobby was kidnapped when walking home on Newtown Rd in Blacktown at around 10pm. Cobby was dragged into the car containing five men and ordered to strip and perform sexual acts, the accused men than dragged her body through a barb wire fence and subjected her to a commit a series of sexual assaults while her attackers beat her repeatedly, and then killed her. PENALTIES IMPOSED: