wheres sasha

[qip]

working hard or hardly working :D check your pm:naughty:

[MarNav1]

Yes, a good question? Where has the queen of CPF been hiding lately?

[TOOCOOL]

Who ?

[MarNav1]

You know, the lady who has 5000 raving maniacs with a flashlight fix to take care of.

[Greta]

She's been at an autopsy on a homicide victim all day... printing the corpse... :D

[greenlight]

not enjoying a nice vacation in Thailand?

[MarNav1]

We wanted to see the all seeing eye again!

[Greta]

not enjoying a nice vacation in Thailand?
Naw... just hangin' out with a deadbeat... :crackup:

[greenLED]

Naw... just hangin' out with a deadbeat... :crackup:
Sasha's dead serious about her job. :p

[MarNav1]

A little DaVinci inquest goin on? Sasha and Andy Sipowitz on a case? It can't be!:poke:

[TOOCOOL]

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[Greta]

A little DaVinci inquest goin on? Sasha and Andy Sipowitz on a case? It can't be!:poke:
ACK!! I don't think my husband would appreciate being likened to Andy Sipowitz... :laughing: ... he's more the Gil Grissom type... :D

[DM51]

I thought this thread was going to be a picture with about 2,000 people in it, like those ones where you have to spot that goofy guy with red hair and a striped football shirt. Except different here (obviously) lol not a goofy guy I hasten to say, not red hair, probably not a striped football shirt lol, oops, *cough* lol when in a hole stop digging...

Ahem. Nice weather today.

[MarNav1]

Nice weather here too. 98F Dew point in the high 60's. That's Omaha for ya.

[wacbzz]

She's been at an autopsy on a homicide victim all day... printing the corpse... :D

If this is true, I have a newfound respect for you and the work that you really do here.

[Greta]

If this is true, I have a newfound respect for you and the work that you really do here.
Well... yes... it is true. I wouldn't have posted it if it weren't. Many here already know that I used to work for the County Medical Examiner and now just help out sometimes on certain cases for the local police department. I'm good at getting fingerprints and palm prints from corpses... regardless of their... um... condition.

*edit added:... ok, I have to add this... 'cuz I'm kinda excited about it. Next week I'm going to the International Association for Identification convention and there is going to be a lecture on a new method of getting prints from otherwise unprintable hands... boiling! Gross, I know.. but fascinating as all hell to me! :D

[wacbzz]

Well... yes... it is true. I wouldn't have posted it if it weren't. Many here already know that I used to work for the County Medical Examiner and now just help out sometimes on certain cases for the local police department. I'm good at getting fingerprints and palm prints from corpses... regardless of their... um... condition.

I didn't mean to imply that it was not true and I apologize if it came off that way. I was really meaning that I had never heard/read that you had a job like this and that to do the things involved in that position involve a lot of...well, you get the picture. (Most people & dead bodies = :faint:)

Do you get to take crime scene photos as well? Photography is just a hobby of mine, and in my fantasy world - where I have every flashlight known to man because money is not a problem - I am a crime scene photographer. Maybe too much CSI...:shakehead

... ok, I have to add this... 'cuz I'm kinda excited about it. Next week I'm going to the International Association for Identification convention and there is going to be a lecture on a new method of getting prints from otherwise unprintable hands... boiling! Gross, I know.. but fascinating as all hell to me! :D

What about burn victims? The obvious says they cannot be fingerprinted and one would have to rely on dental records...

[Greta]

What about burn victims? The obvious says they cannot be fingerprinted and one would have to rely on dental records...

It depends on the degree of the burns. But yes, if there is ridge detail to be had, this method will bring it up enough to print it or at the very least photograph it. The boiling method is especially effective for drowning victims who are (for lack of a better term) water-logged. Usually, you can de-glove a water-logged hand (remove the outer layer of skin like a glove) and then do the prints from that (I won't go into the gorey details of how) but sometimes, the "glove" is too deteriorated and the next layer of skin can be used with the boiling method. Also the boiling method can be used on decomposed fingers... again, depending on the degree of decomposition.

Regarding burn victims... I did one once where all I had was one thumb print for comparison (from the victim's green card)... so I had to get that thumb print from the victim. I printed his thumb about 10 times and each time, I got something more and something less. Using photoshop, I was able to piece it all together from the different prints and come up with enough for a comparison to the known print that I had. This saved having to do dental comparison.

[wacbzz]

Completely awesome...:rock::bow:

[lightdude27]

:barf:

-Evan

[Tuborr]

Well I'm impressed. :ooo: There's something weird about certain professions (meant in the best possible way of course!), the way you desensitize. This has got to be one of the best examples I've come across in a while. Saw an accident victim after an autopsy once (I have several relatives in the medical profession) and it was dead-shocking.

:green: (me)

[Greta]

I have to say that accident victims are right up there in the top two of the worst... :green: ... my second ever autopsy was a guy who decided that after he got drunk, it would be a good idea to go hunting rabbits out by the train tracks. Can you guess what the accident was? Yes... "dead-shocking" is a good description. (hint: we didn't have to open his head to examine his brain. There wasn't one left to examine)

[Crenshaw]

I wonder, do you ever use your Surefire M4 like Grissom does? ie: run it like runtimes are forever, and use it to illuminate stuff from about one meter away even though its blinding..? :thinking: i'm wondering if there really is a need for that...

EDIT: i realise this actually sounds quite sarcastic, but i really am wondering...

Crenshaw

[Greta]

The light that my husband and I both used the most (and he still uses at a Crime Scene Detective) is the U2. Mostly because of the run time which has, so far, proven to be more than sufficient. And no, I never used my M4. I used my M6... :D

[stitch_paradox]

Wow, Sasha I'm really impressed! I didn't know you work in that field. :thumbsup:

[stitch_paradox]

I wonder, do you ever use your Surefire M4 like Grissom does? ie: run it like runtimes are forever, and use it to illuminate stuff from about one meter away even though its blinding..? :thinking: i'm wondering if there really is a need for that...

EDIT: i realise this actually sounds quite sarcastic, but i really am wondering...

Crenshaw

I don't know where you got the idea of the CSI cast running their M4 forever... the average clip of a cast/ casts running their lights is around 2 to 3 minutes. Sometimes you need great amount of light to see minute details.

[mossyoak]

boiling the skin? I think i read about that in the book "The Body Farm" by Bill Bass, hes the man, I met him by accident when he was in Chattanooga having something to do with the Noble,Ga Brent Marsh thing, the one where marsh owned a crematorium and was charging people for the service and was just burying the bodies.

[Crenshaw]

I don't know where you got the idea of the CSI cast running their M4 forever... the average clip of a cast/ casts running their lights is around 2 to 3 minutes. Sometimes you need great amount of light to see minute details.

I didnt say the CSI cast, i said the CSI people within the show, notice, the entire time they investigate a scene, thier light is on. So unless it takes 2 minutes to investigate a crime scene.......

Crenshaw

[mossyoak]

I wonder, do you ever use your Surefire M4 like Grissom does? ie: run it like runtimes are forever, and use it to illuminate stuff from about one meter away even though its blinding..? :thinking: i'm wondering if there really is a need for that...

EDIT: i realise this actually sounds quite sarcastic, but i really am wondering...

Crenshaw

you know why in movies and tv shows they use m4's and m6's? because a normal maglite isnt bright enough to show up, movie/tv sets are really quite bright places even when they look dark on the show.