For as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated with forensic science and I distinctly remember my brother and I running home from the bus stop every day, when we were in middle school, just so we would not miss the introductory scene of the new Criminal Minds episode. The show always began right at 3 and our bus got to the stop roughly around 2:55; just enough time to run home and turn it to the right channel. And as any fan of Criminal Minds knows, the beginning is the most captivating part where it shows the crime that the episode is based off. Ever since then I have always been intrigued by these types of shows; today I mostly watch Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, which is equally interesting and slightly a little less gory than
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I thought that this article may have helped in the identification of Hyo Jun Jin because it is all about the rates of decompositions of bodies in different situations. Her body was heavily decomposed when it found which is why they were unable to get an accurate fingerprint from her so maybe this article would of helped the detectives by understanding how long she had been dead for (Nawrocka et al. 2016). Another article that I believe may be beneficial to the case is written by Maria Lombardi, Jennifer Canter, Patricia A. Patrick, and Robin Altman and it has to do with whether strangulation can be determined by using an Alternative Light Source. I mentioned this above as a possible method for solving the case and in the article they discuss whether or not this method is accurate. They conclude in the end that more than half of the time it is something other than a bruise that is causing the discoloration, which would be important for forensic scientists to know so that they are not incorrectly labeling their death (Lombardi et al. 2015). The last study that I found is about determining the ethnicity of victims and it is by Debra A. Komar and Sarah Lathrop. The study discusses the ways in which forensic anthropologists determine the ethnic identity of individuals in genocide
I thought that this article may have helped in the identification of Hyo Jun Jin because it is all about the rates of decompositions of bodies in different situations. Her body was heavily decomposed when it found which is why they were unable to get an accurate fingerprint from her so maybe this article would of helped the detectives by understanding how long she had been dead for (Nawrocka et al. 2016). Another article that I believe may be beneficial to the case is written by Maria Lombardi, Jennifer Canter, Patricia A. Patrick, and Robin Altman and it has to do with whether strangulation can be determined by using an Alternative Light Source. I mentioned this above as a possible method for solving the case and in the article they discuss whether or not this method is accurate. They conclude in the end that more than half of the time it is something other than a bruise that is causing the discoloration, which would be important for forensic scientists to know so that they are not incorrectly labeling their death (Lombardi et al. 2015). The last study that I found is about determining the ethnicity of victims and it is by Debra A. Komar and Sarah Lathrop. The study discusses the ways in which forensic anthropologists determine the ethnic identity of individuals in genocide