Denaturing DNS - Pouring bleach over most anything, "Talk about sucking the life out of DNA. If there's anything left, it's probably denatured."
"The quickest way to get a car stolen is to leave the car down at the airport unlocked."
Propylene Glycol leaves an oily film on the surface of the hair. It results from taking Rogaine. "Luckly for me, baldness comes from the mother's side."
Finasteride the chemical name for Propecia.
"A lot of guys who use Rogaine also use Propecia, kind of like a cocktale."
Less than 2% of users who mix Rogaine and Propecia also have sexual side effects.
"It's a hot button issue among forensic pathologists. Most doctors says its impossible to prove handedness based on the wounds inflicted on the victim."
Eleven Angry Jurors
Symptoms of Anaflatic Shock - Hyves, outer skin becomes irrated, eyes inflamed, throt closes.
The ground, where gas as an accelerant is used, will have gas fumes settled into the soil. Trace amounts of hydocarbons will still be detectable. However, a moisture test resulting with 10% or more means full saturation which could wash away all traces of hydrocarbons.
Every year a tree grows a light/dark band every year. If a ring is distorted, it could mean evidence of a toxic event.
The big allergies that can cause death: shell fish, egg whites, nuts, and soy.
Why is farm diesel red? - "EPA requirement, farms don't have to pay taxes on fuels, so refineries ear-mark their agricultral diesel by dying it red."
Suckers
"There is no gental way" to remove duck tape from a victim's mouth but to pull it quickly.
The average distance between the eyeteeth in the adult male's mounth is 32 millimeters apart.
"Multiple byte marks on the tonge suggest that [new teeth are still in the 'break-in period.']
"The ankh, an Egyption symbol for eternal life [and] the universal symbol for vampires."
"The shoulder area is rich in blood. [It] heals quickly."
"Incubi seduced young women while they sleeped and drinked their blood."
A court is "like a coven for vampires."
A blood bar is a bar where "the people who go there, they drink blood. Hard core."
Gajas is "a fashon vampire. Normal people who just play dress-up. You don't have to drink blood to be a vampire."
90% of a casino's cash is kept in the basement or main vault.
Thujure is a psychoactive chemical distilled from asbinthe, liquir distilled from wormwood. [Asbinthe is illegal in the US] Banned in 1912. Apparently, toxic byproducts are released during the distilling process. The stuff is suppose to make you a little crazy. Asbinthe is rumored to be served in certain underground clubs. Like a blood bar."
Psi is "Life-force, Blood."
Blood is mixed with an inert fluid, polyester base, prepacked in test tubes for HIV testing. It help prepare the blood for centrifugation by forming a barrier between the blood cells and the serum."
"Sometimes paper products or other materials like silk - they soak it in tea to give it an aged look."
$10 million weights 220 lbs.
"Money bans are wrapped tightly around stacks of bills. They're very difficult to slip off. In fact, the only way to get them off is to tear them."
Paper or Plastic?
"After the MGM Grand fire, they found people fused to the slot machines. They never made it out of their seats. They thought it was [their] lucky day. [They] weren't going to leave without [their] money."
"The bad guys always know if there's going to be a gun fight."
A Halo is a light on the cash register. "It is keyed to the sensor in the cash register. At a preset amount, that light goes off letting the store manager know that its time to transfer the cash into the safe." [Video: CSI-Paper or Plastic - Cash Register Halo.mpg @ 29:21]
XX
"When I do a jigsawpuzzle, I like to start with a corner. When a puzzle is a body, the corner piece is the pelvus."
"Blood in the brachial artery is clotted, which is indictive of post-mortum laceration."
"It's a class 'D' felony for a Correctional Officer to have sexual contact with an inmate."
Aluminum Chelate of carminic acid a scaled insect called the cochineal. "Carmicic Acid is found in their intestines. It's bitter so it discourages preditors." "Cochineal feed on cactus plants." "[Aluminum Chelate] as a dye, has been prized for centries."
Home pregnancy tests are about 10 times cheaper than the brand sold by medical supply companies and just as accurate.
In Blackjack, the record for getting 21 with the most number of cards occurred in 1978 using 11 cards.
"London Letters is [...] a standard writing test [to determine handwriting style]. The paragraph has every capital letter in the Aphabet as well as 1 through 9."
With "no evidence of anti- or paramortem rape. He'll claim it was consentual. Still rape under cover of authority."
Getting Off
"Organ reciptient procedures are pretty clear. They only do transplants on people who test clean [for drugs] for year."
The National Clown and Character Registry registers a "clown's look/face, each one is unique, like snow flakes."
"There are two kinds of clowns. There your ex-circus pros, washed out of Ringling Brothers/Barnaman Balley. Then there's your basic chuckle heads; buy a getup, learn some tricks, and grab some scratch boring the crab out of 9 year olds."
"Parents throw parties; they like clowns because they think their kids like clowns."
"Ibogaine - a choline-esterase inhibitor that acts as a stimulant in the central nervous system. In the liver, it converts into an active matabolite... Noribogaine. Noribogaine locks onto addiction receptors blocking the feedback loops that reenforce dependency. Apparently in some cases, one dose of ibogaine can cure physical addiction. It comes with a free trip. Curing physical addiction is a side-effect. It's intended use is to facilitate visual, tactile, and auditorial experiences of alternate realities. It's a hallucinogen used by the Bwiti tribe of Central Africa. It comes from the powedered bark of a tree grown in Cameroon. Many ethno-botanists believe that the iboga is what the Bible is talking about when it refers to the Tree of Knowledge. The Bwiti consume the powered bark as part of an initation ceremory. After the ritual, a man is called Baanzi, one who has seen the other world." It's not legal in the US.
Drugs "don't promise anything, you have to earn it. If a user doesn't realize why he used in the first place, then no power in the world is going to make him stop."
Bad to the Bone
When attacked, go for the eyes. "If you can't see, you can't fight back."
Signs of a hand to hand beating, "blood drops are medium to large, low velocity splatter, [and] castoff."
"Size [of person] doesn't matter when your out numbered [in a fight.]"
Diffuse axonal injury is when "Multiple blows to the head produced angular acceleration and deceleration to the brain. The twisting of the brain causes the bridging veins to rip. From there, it's all down hill. The axons within the white matter of the brain begin to snap."
Cardiac arrhymia starts by "heart rate increase until [...][going] into tachycardia. Start throwing PVCs and then V-fib."
A big heart is considered 550 grams in weight.
"Effects of long term drug abuse, [...] atrophy, cirrhosis, tissue necrosis."
The know human body temperature of "98.6 is just an average. Some people run hot."
People with obsessive compulive disorder may view the "world as a threatening place" and the hoarding of "useless objects [...] [make them] feel safe and secure."
A quick determination about how long a body has been buried in the ground, "the rule of thumb is if the skull smells bad, then it is under 3 years. After 3 years, the skulls begin to "smells like dirt."
Traits of a woman's bone structure: "forehead is upright, smooth, mandible's small, lower face narrow, pelvis wide for the birth canal, no pits in the pubic bone [thus] never gave birth."
Traits of the caucasion race's bone structure: "zygomatic bones retreat, slant back. Nasall openings long and narrow."
One's height can be estimated based on the femur bone.
For people in their late teens, early 20's, the "third molars haven't erupted. No wisdom teeth."
Strangulation will cause "fractures to the hyoid bone."
CODIS has DNA records of missing people.
Turning the Screws
"In auto collisions, the victims found furthest away from the car usually weren't wearing a seatbelt."
After death, "blood settles to her interior, livitity fixed." So they can tell, " she had been face down, [...]but someone dumbed her face up."
Instar maggots may infest a corpse. "It takes [24 hours] for blow fly eggs to hatch."
Required operation for running a rollercoaster ride is "I release the break, I press a button, it green and marks start."
Rollercoaster pictures are taken by a "multi-track digital" "camera on a trigger, the train passes by, automacially snaps a picture and stores in in the computer's hard drive."
"One loose screw could not cause a train to derail. There's eight wheels per train. They all would have to be loosened. It just doesn't happen."
On a screw, when the "end threads are stripped, [it] means the nuts were loose. Excessive play on the screws would have worn down the threads."
"Vertical strations evenly spaced could have been [made by] a pipe wrench."
A head contusion causes "swelling of the brain, [kills] within minutes" because the swollen brain puts "pressure on the brain stem."
"A release of epinephrine and adrenalin while riding a rollercoaster can produce a stimulatory effect. It enhances ejaculation."
"No one tampers with their sex machine."
Dead Ringer
"The corena usually takes days to gloss over on a corpse." [Video: CSI-Dead Ringer - Corpse Eyes.mpg @ 4:00]
When collecting evidence without gloves, "collect it or lose it. 10 years ago, no one would have known the difference. 10 years ago we would have not been able to get DNS off that [evidence.]"
Symptoms of dehydration: clouded corneas, "serosal surfaces are usually dry [on the liver,] urine was minimal and dark brown." "The corena usually takes days to gloss over on a corpse."
A high dose of the blood pressure medication called furosemide, (75 mics per mil or higher,) "is a diuretic. Could [cause] dehydration." "The drug can also cause muscle cramps, dizzyness, confusion, blurred vision, and restlessness."
Mercerized cotton is "extremely strong. Fibers are placed in a caustic solution, splitting the fibers apart providing an increased surface area to absorb the dye. Once it drys, it's exponentially stronger. This kind of thread is used in machine quilting and a embroidery. Like on sports uniforms." [Video: CSI-Dead Ringer - Mercerized Cotton.mpg @ 15:00]
"Any good cop keeps one racked in the chamber" of his gun.
Why race contestants carry their trash, "there's a 5 minute penality if you litter the race course."
The "best way to get chemicals into your system" is injection. "The second best way" is ingestion.
Generalization: Every cop thinks about how to kill someone and get away with it.
Generalization: "I married a cop. With that comes alcohol and women to take the edge off."
Drug abuse on the body creates a condition where "muscle cells hyper-hydrated yet [the] body is dehydrated."
A substitute for steroids when "you're subjected to random drug testing" is creatine. "Steroids are controlled [substances] but creatine isn't. It's a legal way to bulk up. Creatine pulls the potassium from the blood and pulls it into the muscles."
Mixing creatine and furosemide "you get a severe electrolyte imbalance. Leading to arrhythmia, and consequently cardiac arrest."
The camera in an ATM "is controlled by the branch office. The ATM connects to a national network. Seperate systems." The clocks must be synchronized.
Card readers attached to card slot of ATMs "transmits the card number to [the thief] and [a local] camera records the sucker's pin number." [Video: CSI-Dead Ringer - ATM Card Swipe.mpg @ 43:08]
"Most cops won't issue tickets to fellow cops, or their families. Professional curtiousy. But your tags still get logged."
"Sooner or later, everyone gets replaced."
Bloodlines
Some one with "severe lacerations on her feet, [...]was running from somewhere."
"The guilty ones always fall asleep" when talking about suspects in jail.
"It was dark. You were under attack. Under those conditions, pupils dilate, it hard to focus. You can't always trust your eyes."
"Blood is probably from who ever broke the [car] glass, not the victum."
"Most new cell phones are embedded with a GPS chip. The [cell phone] carrier accepted the Atterney General Waiver. If the cell phone is on, it should show up." The cell phone "is moving."
"Sometimes fraternal twins, two seperately fertialized eggs, develop into only one person. In effect, one twin dies in embryo but its DNS survives in the other. That's why the DNS from his buccal swab matched his hair but not his semen. So he had two strains of DNA in his body. The DNS from his semen was evidently from his dead twin brother."
No More Bets
The house advantage in roulett [is] 5.26%. Albert Einstein had a theory about roulette, he says that the only way to win at roulette, is to steal the money from the table when croupier isn't looking."
"Historically, .22s were the hit mans bullet of choice. They have the energy to enter into the cranial vault but not enough to exit, so they just ricricochet inside shreding the gray matter until they stop." [Video: CSI-No More Bets - 22 as hitman's choice.mpg @ 12:45]
"Back in the days, the first time they caught you cheating they'd give you a couple of wacks on the back of the hand with a ball peer hammer. Second time, you lose a limb. Third time, long walk in the desert with a shovel."
"Everyone who buys a Rolex gets registered at the point of purchase" and the name is associated with the watch serial number.
"A fake ID is for scamming a casio. A baller puts his real name on a Rolex."
A regulation Roulette "wheel, [...] runs about 1,500 bucks."
The Eudaemonic Enterprises, from "Aristotle's presiding sprite of rationality, is said they figured out a way to beat the roulette wheel. Not through a betting system, but through physics. It's simple, in principle. A fixed mass in a known orbit, as long as you can account for all the known forces, air resistance, friction, gravity, you can land a probe on Mars. Well, they says that every roulette wheel is a little different. Tilt, wabble, bounce, but it's a complicated system. [This system] gives you a 44% advantange over the house." [Video:CSI-Finally - Beat Roulette.mpg @ 25:15]
"Electronics in old casinos aren't well shielded. So [electronic gadgetry would work] better in one of the new casinos on the strip."
"The exclusion/exemption clause means you don't get to gamble. Period. Not even the quarter slots at the gas and go."
"The Gaming Commission put me in the Black Book, for cheating."
After the Show
Nature can perserve a body. "Loose sandy soil, shady area, November temperatures, acts like a freezer." [Video: CSI-After the Show - Nature Preservation.mpg @ 36:01]
"A girl this beautiful wouldn't zip up" her shirt to the top of her neck.
Alcohol levels can increase after death. "Decomposing blood can generate ethanol postmortem. As the cell walls lyse and contact with the sugar and alcohol, bacterial growth produces the byproducts of carbon dioxide and ethanol. It's inexact, but the body is capabable of producing somewhere around .08 grams percent on its own." [Video: CSI-After the Show - Alcohol increases.mpg @ 40:01]
"Positional asphyzia - That means that someone sat on [the] chest [of the victum.]"
"First thing you learn as a model-- bring several outfits with you. You never know what the photographer might like."
"Did your father ever tell you you were pretty?" "Did your father ever tell you you were smart? [If so,] it probably never occurred to you that you wouldn't be successful. If all you hear is that your gorgeous, you can let everything else fall away and it can leave you in a very dangerous place."
"Double Exposure - two seperate images" burned onto one film. [Video: CSI-After the Show - Double Exposure.mpg @ 53:16]
Invisible Evidence
"Most guys can't wait to take off their [condom after they have ejaculate.] Not every guy uses the trash [to dispose of their condoms.]" [Video: CSI-Invisible Evidence - Condom Removal.mpg @ 23:16]
"It is impossible to trace the source of a white thread."
"The semen belongs to whomever flushed the tolet last because there was a drop, not a smear."
"Body Wax - Made with soy. Burns clean. Drip it all over your partner's body."
"Axion Car Wax is industrial grade. It's sold to car washes for commercial use only." "Contains carnubia wax butyl cellusolve and cationic surfactant."
Some car washes use "photocell technology. Whole system shuts down if cars within 3 feet of each other."
Jackpot
"Formaldenhyde - it fixes tissue, but it destroys DNS. No ID through CODIS."
"Spruce and fir trees [are in] your typical mountain forest [..] 9000 feet above sea level."
"Aspen only grow in [forests] that have been cleared [by] fire, roads, or logging. After a major forest fire, manzanita bushes grow like weeds for decades."
"All animals can smell rotting flesh. Studies have shown that when domestic pets bring back human body parts, usually the remains are within a half mile radius." "It occurs more than you think."
"Bodies make good fertilizer. You often see fresh green shoots near a grave site."
"[Bugs are] perfect. They always do their jobs."
"Blood drops imply directionality. The stellated circles imply perpendicular impact." [Video: CSI-Jackpot - Blood Directionality.mpg @ 13:13]
"An old native form of punishment [was where] the body was bound and buried up to it neck. Tree sap was poured over the head to attract ants."
"Veterinary school is harder to get into than medical school."
No Words. Placing an electrica charge on film will attract dust and may reveal ridges. [Video: CSI-Jackpot - Dust Patterns.mpg @ 35:36]
No Words. Grounding up pencil lead and dusting it onto a surface can be used to collect finger prints. [Video: CSI-Jackpot - Lead to Fingerprints.mpg @ 36:20]
"GHB is a party drug. It is also a powerful sedative."
"The day [the victum] left Vegas, he used MapQuest to get directions from his dorm to Jackpot, NV."
Viva Las Vegas
"Victim was shot at close range, in a crowd. Witnesses say there was a stampede. A good time to ditch a gun. Maybe it's still here."
Electricution is not always a quick way to die. [Video: CSI-Viva Las Vegas - Electricution.mpg @ 16:05]
"Old School Suicide Scares - " are referencing cuts across the wrists. [Video: CSI-Viva Las Vegas - Suicide Scares.mpg @ 15:41]
"Area 51 - its the most secretive piece of realestate in the world."
"Nevada desert [is] compact dirt, not sand. People usually give up before they hit 3 feet" when digging with a shovel.
"Cronic drinking tends to cause a reduction in platelets. Thins out the blood and retarns clotting."
"Earing aids have unique serial numbers."
"Arachnodactyly [means] abnormally long fingers." [Video: CSI-Viva Las Vegas - Arachnodactyly.mpg @ 25:37]
"Marfan Syndrome - abnormally long fingers, arms, legs, scoliosis. Similiar to Abe Lincoln. The syndrome weakens the [person's] aorta."
"Components of your basic bathroom disinfectant [are] Chlormide M.E.A, sodium lauryl sulfate, pine oil."
"They say that gambler's are creatures of habit. They [play] everyday, win or lose."
Swap Meet
"Foam in her nose and mouth is consistent with drowning."
"Livid is unfixed. She's been dead for less than 2 hours."
Necrophilic Voyeurism - "[The onlookers] never go home until the body is taken away."
High heal shoes "put degenerative stress on the hip joints, throw off the curve of the spine, and the tilt to the pelvis, over time, [gives women] headaches, sore backs, shorten calf muscles, and bunions."
La Perla - a "very expensive" line of women's underwear.
"If you alternate [hands when you double glove, put two gloves on each hand] there's more contact between the exposed latex of the first glove and atmospheric microbes."
"All bodies of water contain unicelluar algae called diatoms. [Roughly] they're unique, like fingerprints. Diatoms from one body of water don't match those of any other." [Video: CSI-Swap Meet - Diatoms.mpg @ 18:41]
"You've got to be authorized to clean up biologicals. If some highschool wage slave mops up a nose bleed at Mickey D's, they're breaking the law."
"The bereaved often find the Southern Accent very comforting."
"When someone is killed with a table saw, blood get everywhere. In your hair. In your clothes. You would have had to take a long hot shower, wash your clothes, clip your nails, toss your shoes."
"There's a chemical [...] called phenylthaline. It can detect a speck of blood the size of a pinprick." [Video: CSI-Swap Meet - Phenylthaline.mpg @ 34:52]
Rules of the LifeStyle - "It wasn't like we were having an affair. That'd be breaking the rules. 'No' means 'No.' Arrive as a couple, leave as a couple. Drugs, never. Condomns, always. No affairs; sex with someone other than your spouse is only allowed at the parties. No photos, no video. And the kids must never know."
"Variety is a good thing. And if you get the right group of people together, a couple of drinks, you'd be surprised what can happen. Everybody fantasizes about other people. A neighbor, friend, girl at the office."
"They're consenting adults. Its not illegal. At most, they only hurt themselves."
"Everybody has a jealously gene."
Postmortem bruising - "It can take a day or two [...] for bruises to percolate through the soft tissue and become visible."
Down the Drain
Traiquial (like in throat for spelling purposes) filled with "foam, like the head of a beer," implies drowning. "But the same thing happens with heart failure or drug overdose."
Human ribs have a deep costel groves (check spelling) that differiciate themselves from other animal ribs. [Video @ 7:13]
"Clorizine (a chemical, may be Florizine) reacts to feces as well as blood."
"Pubic arch [bone] sharply angled, less than 90 degrees, indicates male."
"Tissue in a sewer decomposes 20 times faster than normal."
"Kids don't fold anything [such as clothing]. Mother's do."
Crow's Feet
"Laser cauterize the skin as the destroy tissue. Lack of blood and scabbing confirms their use. So, best guess would be that she recently underwent a cosmetic procedure." [Video: CSI-Spark of Life - Laser Cosmetic Procedure.mpg @ 7:24]
"Women who don't want their friends to know that they are [getting cosmetic produres] will check into a suite while they heal. A five star suite has got to be cheaper than a hospital stay."
"Mees lines [on the finger nails is] indicative of heavy metal posioning." [Video: CSI-Spark of Life - Heavy Metal Posioning.mpg @ 25:30]
"Exterminators use sulfuryl floride. It kills the bugs and then evaporates. Agro scientists call it the 'safty fumigant.'" However, "the house is toxic for the first 12 hours." "Exterminators leave some windows open to help circulate the gas."
"Dizzy or disorientation [are symptoms] of sulfuryl floride gas poisoning. Urination is the only way for the gas to get out [of your body.]"
"The termite fumigant enter his bronchioles causing his lungs to fill with fluid. COD is the pulmonary edema and respiratory arrest. Just like a drowing victum." [Video: CSI-Spark of Life - Pulmonary Edema & Respiratory Arrest.mpg @ 20:37]
"'If you believe in me, you will never thirst. Rivers of living water will flow from your bellies.' John 7:38. Some fringe health professionals have used the Biblical passage as justification for Urine Therapy. Drinking your own pee. [On Amazon, there are] 15 books touting Urine's supposed health benefits including it's magical powers to reduce the signs of aging."
"Arsenicum [is an ingredient that is] holistic for arsenic."
What's Eating Gilbert Grissom?
"State institutions are encouraged to practice Xeriscaping. 'Xeri' meaning [...] landscaping using drought-tolerant plant life. Conserves water.
"Were you aware that the average college student "weighs 135 pounds?"
"Maggot digestion can generate heat up to 125 degrees. Heat increases the rate of putrefaction, which speeds up the digestive process."
"How long would it take for [maggot] to pick a body clean? Assuming it's just one body? A few days."
"[Wood mulchers have] six cylinders and 200 horse power. It's got an engine that would give most SUVs a run for their money. [It] would take about 15 seconds to chop up a body."
"Wood absorbs moisture. One of the reasons they use it for mulch."
"Serials [killers] have been known to change their signatures because they have to. Fear of being caught... interruption... or it could just be an act of escalation."
"Serial [killers] typically photograph their crime scenes."
"You know what it's like to be told you lead the life and fit the profile of a serial killer? [The cops] make all these assumptions, and [they're] not asking questions here. [They're] attacking [...] to see how I react to what [they] say. Nothing I say is going to make a difference [to them.]" The point is to get you to confess.
"All those years on death row, he only had one visitor, his lawyer. Although he did receive a far amount of letters from random women..."
"Sexual sadism can go hand in hand with sexual dysfunction."
Harvest
"Sex offenders under a felony conviction have absolutely no unconditional release and are under lifetime supervision, automatically assigned by the Nevada Criminal State Justice system. Mandated, of course, by state and federal Megan's Law in effect 5/17/96. And therefore I am required to register and update my information... whenever I move from my current domicile."
"Medroxyprogesterone [aka chemical castration] is inconclusive. It renders the subject incapable of erection, but it doesn't remove the sex drive. You would still be capable of sexual assault using other objects."
"Megan's Law has holes. Police aren't required to notify a community about a predator. So flood his block with flyers detailing his crimes. Trust me, the neighbors won't let him out of their sight."
"Sometimes rapists like to relive the event. He may have wanted to watch her. [Search the ground with] the body in view. We're looking for shoe prints, sperm clusters... anything else you can find."
"If enough people knew what was out there hunting them, they'd never leave their house."
"Promyelocytic leukemia or APL [symptoms are] most likely [...] shortness of breath, obvious bruising, sudden nosebleeds, petechiae, [...] and it usually hits Hispanics."
"It's not unheard of [to] have a baby, get the undeveloped stem cells from cord blood [via] in vitroto be a genetic match. New parents are even storing it now."
"It takes one to one-and-a-half liters of [bone] marrow for a successful harvest." [Video: CSI-Harvest - Bone Marrow.mpg @ 00:37]
Expectorant helps bring up mucus when "kitchen staff talk while they prepare your food and then the wait staff repeats your order over the plate, and by the time you get your meal, there are several DNA samples coating it."
"All [MapQuest] queries are saved for 72 hours, then they dump the core. [..] Physical location doesn't matter. What we do is a reversal process [to find Internet users.] Using the Internet protocol number, we can get to the server. Which will ultimately lead to the Internet account holder. We hunt for child pornographers the same way."
Play with Fire
"Petechial hemorrhaging indicates strangulation."
"She's been dead less than an hour. The killer's [fingerprints are] still on her." "Very few sweat glands around the ankle. Prints survive longer."
"Bruises are concentrated on the left side of the neck. On the right side, there's only one [bruise]. Killer strangled her with his right hand. One hand only. Prolonged pressure on the jugular. He must have been looking right in her eyes. Yeah, that takes hate."
"Bruises on her hands, her arms, upper torso-- it's consistent with rape."
"A vaginal clock on her [showed] signs of [sexual] activity at 11:00, 12:00, and 1:00, and that would imply rough sex, not rape."
"I keep one [recorder] by the bed. In case I dream anything useful."
"Break the new [prisoner's] teeth, he can't bite down on something that's shoved in his mouth."
"It's capitalism. Every one us a buyer or seller. [...] Exchange of goods for services. I gave [him] credit, he walks out of here in debt. [He] thinks because he's on the outside, he doesn't have to pay. [A] man who doesn't pay his debt undermines the whole system."
Grave Danger
"A certificate of honorary ownership of Trigger, 'The Smartest Horse in the Movies,' issued by Roy Rogers to the children of America. Roy felt that the children of America were the true owners of Trigger, so any kid that would write him, he'd send 'em one of those. The Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Museum, which used to be in Victorville, California, and is now in Branson, Missouri."
"The object of the [Duke's of Hazzard] game is to be the first one to make it to Uncle Jesse's farm without running into Roscoe. Now, there's two ways to do that. You can either take the dirt road or the highway. Dirt road is slower because you can only roll with one dice, but it's safe because you don't run into any of the Hazzard cards that you would find on the highway, right? But when you are on the highway, you get to roll two dice, which makes you go faster. Pretend I'm gonna take the highway, so I'm gonna move General Lee eight spaces. One, two, three, four, five...eight. I hit a Hazzard card. Now, Hazzard cards you don't want. 'Cooter splashes mud on your windshield.' You lose one turn." "Going [on] the dirt road. One, two, three, four. 'Take a Duke card.' Duke cards are good. You want one of those 'cause it gets you through the dirt road a lot faster." "So Duke cards, good; Hazzard cards, bad."
"Traffic cameras in a three-block radius between Flamingo and Koval [...] only buffer the video for the past few hours."
"Ether [...] is volatile. Flammable. Outside of meth cooks, no one uses it anymore."
Considering a person who is buried alive in a box: "The space in that box looks like 2x2x6, which would be 24 cubic feet. That would hold approximately 600 liters of air. If you figure half a liter per breath. Slow breathing... maybe 12 breaths per minute. Panic breathing would be [...] twice that much. If the math is right, he's got about an hour and 15 minutes of air left in that box."
"The diagnostic unit gets attached to that black box [in the car], which gives us the mileage of his last trip. Like an airplane. That gives us the [search] radius for the [last trip.]"
"Your father stopped coming to see you six weeks into your [prison] sentence. Seeing your daughter turned into some... hood rat's lesbian sex slave can be rather emotional."
"Fire ants, very rare in Nevada. They don't like our soil. The only places you find them around Vegas are in plant and tree nurseries."
Great video of ants biting a human. [Video: CSI-Grave Danger - Ant Bits.mpg @ 01:41]
"COD was asphyxiation. When the blood oxygen drops to less than 16% and the CO2 builds up, there's a rapid loss of consciousness. Death within minutes. With no disfiguring physical findings."
Iced
"They say a BA is worth a million dollars in extra income over a lifetime, but the present cost of college tuition is about the same amount."
"Their bodies are slightly pink. And you're thinking 'pink' skin tones are a common effect of carbon monoxide fumes. Vomit is also consistent with exposure to C.O."
"Trophy condoms- When a stud scores, he announces his victory by putting his spoils on his neighbor's doorknob."
"There are two toxins which can turn a body pink postmortem, [...] carbon monoxide [and] cyanide ingestion. Interesting fact about cyanide-- not everyone can smell it. It's a genetic quirk."
"Lividity is fixed. So this wasn't a body dump. He died there."
"Theoretically, [a natural reserve of methane gas] pressure could have built up, broken a sewer pipe and shot up through the toilet" to cause the toliet to explode.
"This guy's been eating meat or fish infected with tapeworm cyst. That cyst grows up to be nice fat tapeworm that attaches itself to the intestinal wall and suck out all your nutrients. [In a dead body] the tapeworm needs to find a new host. Only two ways out," the rectum or mouth. [Video: CSI-Iced - Tape Worm.mpg @ 00:21:24]
"Necrostuprum- Body snatcher. We didn't mislabel or misplace the body. Someone took it. [Stealing a body would] be a lot easier [at] a hospital or university facility."
"Some of the leading theories on crop circles include extraterrestrials, wind vortexes, Earth energies, and of course, hoaxes. But in 1985, farmers near one U.S. military base suspected the source of a recent incident to be the downwash from a helicopter's rotor blades. The spinning of the blades caused the chopper to rise forced the air downward, in effect, bending the grass below."
"A ton of [carbon dioxide] gas [would be needed] to cause serious [bodily] damage. C02 levels are usually .03%." 8% is lethal. "C02 replaces oxygen on hemoglobin molecules. At 8%, [the body] would've literally suffocated on a cellular level." "Carbon dioxide, unlike carbon monoxide, doesn't affect skin coloration."
"Two pairs of socks, two pairs of underwear, two T-shirts. That tells me the guy was going to be staying in Vegas for two days."
"Most sources of carbon dioxide come from... factories, cars and volcanoes."
"A chemical compound that can burn skin and can also disappear into thin air [...] is dry ice. Dry ice releases carbon dioxide as it sublimates." "It took 30 pounds of dry ice to reach the lethal level of saturation. On the floor, [...] carbon dioxide is one and half times heavier than air."
"Dry ice is cold. The dry ice significantly lowered the temperature in both rooms, and the drastic decrease in temperature can turn a dead body pink. We see it all the time when we pull dead bodies from frozen rivers."
Hypertensive Cardiovascular disease- a.k.a heavy heart. "Heart weighed 500 grams instead of 300. So his heart stopped, he keeled over, hit his head on the pavement." The drug taken for this disease is Atenolol.
"Low in nicotine, high in furfural [...] is consistent with the Perdomo Reserve brand. Perdomos are very high-end."
"When [dry ice is] flushed [in a toliet bowl], it would've lodged in the drain trap. As the ice sublimates and gas was released, it would've built up, causing the toilet to explode."
"It's a class D felony to steal a corpse with the intent to sell or mutilate."
Weeping Willows
"Usually when a killer covers the victim's face, it suggests familiarity. An act of contrition."
"The suspect has a laptop in his vehicle that has a GPS unit that's honed in [to] something mobile." "We found a GPS transmitter under the rear bumper of the girl's car." [Video: CSI-Weeping Willows - GPS Transmitter.mpg @ 00:22:33]
"One count felony stalking. That's seven to ten."
"We all live in glass houses. You gotta be careful where you take your shower."
"There's two sets of shoe prints... With a bit of distance between the strides. Which means they were both running."
"This car was recently broken into. These scratches... they look fresh. The Slim Jim." [Video: CSI-Weeping Willows - Slim Jim.mpg @ 00:53:35]
Hollywood Brass
"These kids come [to Los Angeles] from all over the place with stars in their eyes. While they're waiting to be discovered, they still got to pay their rent. They do a bump to turn their first trick. Next they're turning tricks to get their next bump."
"If this is a meth lab, then there would be free iodine coated all over these walls. [...] Spray starch [will] react with the iodine. Turning it a nice Dodger blue." [Video: CSI-Hollywood Brass - Meth Lab.mpg @ 00:27:31]
"Looks like body gas has brought" a submerged body to the surface. [Video: CSI-Hollywood Brass - Body Gas.mpg @ 00:31:58]
"A .45 [caliber]. Big, fat and slow."
"That's a lot of blood. [...] Two, three pints... Nobody loses that much blood and lives."
We won't "be able to get any DNA off this. The carpet solvents probably compromised the sample."
"You can be in AFIS for a lot of reasons. After 9-11, anyone who works in a government building, [i.e.] doctors, lawyers. Or anyone who has a permit to carry a concealed weapon."
4x4
"There's an absence of trauma in the vaginal cavity. Enough to rule out rape. The semen was found at a depth not indicative of penile penetration. In this case, only a couple inches in."
"She likes to make money. Girls who party make the money. This ain't L.A., where you get up at 10:00 a.m. for an audition. At 10:00 a.m., my girls are still at Drai's partying with the client."
"29 and already over the hill." Las Vegas "has different standards."
"The black pus suggested a possible infection from an airborne agent."
"Immune suppression is a common side effect [of steroids.]" "In addition to immune suppression and heart and liver disease, steroid abuse can also cause shrunken testicles, impotence and aggression-- 'roid rage.'"
"Mucormycosis- a disease caused by exposure to rhizopus oryzae, a kind of mold." "Mucor causes deterioration of the bones around the sinuses and eye sockets." "The pus was pushing it out, while the bones that held it in place were getting eaten away. The airborne mold spores enter the nasal cavity and they consume sinus tissue as they multiply. [A] compromised immune system wasn't strong enough to fight the spread of the infection."
"Rhizopus oryzae likes to grow on human tissue. Mold grows outward as spores reproduce and are carried away from the source."
"Anyone who appears this narcissistic may prefer paying for hookers rather than wasting his love on a girlfriend."
"Positional asphyxia; check out his eyes." "Heat damage to all the respiratory mucosa, as well." "I'd say this kid was in a small, hot space for quite a while. Closet with a radiator, boiler room..."
Spark of Life
"Perfect conditions for maximum damage. Firebugs listen to the weather reports just like we do. Only for different reasons."
"Third degree burns are painless. The nerves are burned away. She's not conscious of what's happening to her."
"Debridement - We scrape off the dead flesh, then cover it with cadaver skin. We then wrap it with gauze. It prevents infection and allows the remaining tissue to heal."
"Lots of pictures of the kid. Family revolved around the child." "Yeah, way it should be."
"There are three bodies in three locations. A lot of variables."
"I didn't think you could smell vodka." "Well, that depends on how long it was distilled."
"The word for vodka comes from the Russian phrase zhizennia voda. 'Water of life.'"
"Virtual crime scene sketch. Sure beats doing it by hand." [Video: CSI-Spark of Life - Virtual Crime Scene Sketch.mpg @ 00:16:30]
"Off-ladder" peak - when "one of [the DNS] markers is out of the control range." "The frequency of that anomaly is one in every 250 [people.]" For example, "This is the standard ladder of alleles that I run against every unknown DNA. And it contains all of the commonly encountered alleles within the population. As you can see, at locus D3 the alleles are 12 through 19. Which is normal." "The 21 allele is outside the normal range. An 'off-ladder' peak." [Video: CSI-Spark of Life - DNA Wheel.mpg @ 00:38:54]
"Basal Dody Temperature thermometer (BBT) - is "used by women to pinpoint a temperature spike that occurs... During ovulation. It maximizes your chance of conception." "The gradations are broken down by tenths of a degree. And most thermometers aren't that specific."
"Some Eastern cultures believe that fire cleanses the soul."
Committed
"I don't know why people think that rape has anything to do with sex."
"This guy's immune system doesn't recognize his own sperm. Antibodies are attacking the little guys. I read about this phenomenon in a forensic journal... November, 2003. Killer had a vasectomy, then had it reversed." [Video @ 00:22:04,767 --> 00:22:07,234]
Background subtraction algorithm - can be used "to isolate the print from a bedspread." "The technology's pretty new. You'll get hammered on cross, but it definitely works." "So the fingerprint is blood-red-- that's the shade we use for the color identifier-- and now the preprogrammed algorithm is just removing all the other colors from the fabric, and we're left with just the print." [Video @ 00:24:29,567 --> 00:24:31,801]
"Sandra Acheson called her husband at exactly 3:03 p.m. today. I secured a 2703-D court order for the number she was calling. It was a cell phone. I contacted the cell phone company and found out that Jesse answered his phone near Tower 8, phase West. Given the signal strength, he was within two blocks of the tower." [Video @ 00:28:26,634 --> 00:28:28,667]
Computer Voice Stress Analyzer "has been discredited for years." "Check their Web site. It's still used in 1,400 state and local agencies."
"Suspects are tricked into confessing all the time, but I'm telling you, [the investigator] intimidated that boy."
"Before committing a crime, a typical serial rapist will often masturbate to his perfect rape-murder fantasy. Didn't wear a condom then, didn't want to wear one during the act. Besides, the DNA isn't on file. It wasn't much of a risk."
"Ran [the sweater] under the UV light and out popped one of those invisible dry cleaner ID stamps." [Video @ 00:47:54,734 --> 00:47:55,667]
King Baby
"You never had a transitional object when you were a kid? A stuffed animal or a blanket?" "70% of children have something. Helps them with separation anxiety."
"Some drugs metabolize quickly, so what doesn't show up in the blood, shows up in the urine."
Infantilism - "Some guys can never love any woman but their mother. And some never had a mother who loved them."
LSD - aka "Lucy in the sky with diamonds..." "Acid trips last for hours. Why wouldn't it have shown up in his bloodstream?" "LSD is in and out of your system in 20 minutes. But it acts as a trigger, which sets off cascading reactions in the brain. The brain keeps cascading long after the drug is gone. Well, there are good trips, and bad trips." [Video @ 00:50:22,033]
Sint 2000 - "It's a synthetic motor oil. A synthetic would make it high end. That particular oil is only used for Lamborghinis."