Indications of being High - Dry Mouth, Diafresis, Red Eyes, Dialated Pupiles.
Murder, not suscide, by gun - a non-contact wound with a downward angle.
Death Grip
Most all kidnapped victums are killed within 3 hours of being kidnapped.
Vitamin A deficiency causes excessive blinking, dry eyes, and can't see the color purple.
The American Crocodile are migrating up from the Keys into the Southern part of Florida. All 3000 are living at the Nucular Power Plant because of the heat.
All the American Crocodiles at the Nucular Power Plant have been embedded with microchip through a serenge with a chip. Each crocodile DNA has been collected. Each Crocodile has their own number.
Big Brother
Super glue is used by atheletes to seal cuts. It stops the bleeding immediately.
Invasion
"Patterns and routines, a home invaders free pass."
Water can wash away DNA.
Particles can get blown into the stitches of clothing or ski mask and they can't be seen unless you pull the fabric apart.
"Each rope has it's own DNA." "Inside the inner core is a tiny piece of colored yarn to identify the fibers. It's an industry code. If you know the color you know the material."
Every rope is made with different adhesives and chemicals so they each burn differently." Using the smell and the burn and you can identify two ropes that were made from the same manufacturing process.
"Everytime he swipes his card [at the store,] it gets recorded into his purchase history." What's funning is: "It must be embarrassing getting caught because your trying to save a nichol using your membership card."
"Thermal viewer can detect vegetation distress caused by proximity to a decaying cadaver." The "destressed vegetation is going to be low and it's going to be obvious."
Bullets become elongated from guns placed in a vice. "And then sawed off the barrel so that the lead get's squeezed as the bullet comes out."
When comparing hand writing, check the slant, pressure, width, and height of letters, to look for a match. Best way is to compare two signatures.
Complications
"Suicides are filled with shame. They commit the act in closets, empty hotel rooms, [usually] with the curtains drawn."
"[Hanging] suicides usually leave the rope lose and let gravity do the work."
"Sinicone gel [can be] use topically to prevent scaring after liposuction."
"Standing promotes circulation after liposuction," which speeds healing of the scare tissue.
Bowline knots are nautical in origin, "used for tying off boat and stuff."
"The protocol for arrhythmia is to hang a bag of epinephrine and introduce it via an IV."
"When IV doesn't work, you go direct, epinephrine straight into the heart. The heart goes from 0 to 100 in less than a second."
Exhuming a body "takes a court order, no judge will give you one of those without corroborating evidence."
Blood Moon
Wet foot/dry foot - "The Organization of Cuba Libra bring blankets and coffee to the balseros every full moon. [They] try to help them into saftey. More rafters come when there's extra light during a full moon. They think it's safer but it actually more dangerous; the coastguard can see them better. The coast guard has to send them back [to Cuba.] They make it to dry land the get to stay." It's illegal for anyone to "enter the water to assist. [If you do,] you will be in violation of the law."
The Homeland Security database is called I.C.E.
Bullet Embolism - When "the blood flow carries a bullet" to another part of the body.
The rotation of a bullet is normally to the right. "The only kind of hand gun that has these kinds of strstriation is Winfield. It's a designer gun. It's light weight. It's compact. It's a chick's gun. It the kind of firearm that she can just stick in her purse."
The National Crime Information Association database is called NCIA.
Verdugo - One of Castro's executioners or tortures.
Pier Beach Silver Screening is a midnight showing of movies on the beach. "They lay a burlap tar down so that the chairs would not sink into the sand."
"Killers who use knives, usually cut themselves."
The Winfield handgun has a "single action trigger pull between 5 and 7 pounds per square inch. A competition trigger is about a 3; it's very touchy." Anything less, and "a sneeze would set it off."
Slow Burn
"He was a Sneaky Hunter. He sat out here all night and let the controlled [fire] do his work. He probably had a flashlight at the end of his rifle to spot game running from the fire." [Video: CSI- Miami - Slow Burn - Sneaky Hunter.mpg @ 41:08]
Peat fire - a fire smoldering underground. [Video: CSI- Miami - Slow Burn - Peat Fire.mpg @ 42:46]
"Road side flare - Those babies burn at 4000 degrees." [Video: CSI- Miami - Slow Burn - Flare Fires.mpg @ 43:38]
"The skin is definately punctured [with bite marks] but there is so little detail, there's not enough for a mold [...] because they nashed at her."
"Two reasons you start a fire: To destroy or two distract."
"Route 41, Alligator alley, dumps out into a speed trap. People driving through the [Ever]glades lose track of how fast their going. Staties pop'em when they hit civilization." [Video: CSI- Miami - Slow Burn - Alligator Alley.mpg @ 55:06]
A Z-Nose "picks up the scent of fire-- potassium, sulfer."
"Women who have been busted out from the casino and have nowhere else to go" are easy targets for sexual preditors.
"Amoebae and algae [on the skin] could be N. fowleri [...] could kill ya."
"Some insurance policies don't pay on suicides."
A gun shot more than 10 feet away is considered murder. The markings of a close range shot are gunpowder residue, gunpowder stippling, and a non-ragged entry around the wound.
Blood on the outside of a car is no proof that the owner of the car was involved. "She was beaten near [suspect's] car. That's no proof [suspect] did it."
When you've been near a fire, "your eyes are cooked" and it may cause your eyesight to blur and miss small details.
Stalkerazzi
Petechiae is a symptom of asphyxiation, "His eyes are dotted with red. Definitely Petechiae. This man was asphyxiated."
Glass, like from a car wreck, will be smooth not ragged.
Hypothenar is the area on the hand right below the pinky.
Ice packs will keep film cold because "between the heat and humidity, [...] good film will melt in a couple of hours."
Coat liners made with "South American Kapok Tree fibers is the warmest jacket lining that you can buy that's not down." It's implied that this lining is good for people with allergies.
Potassium Acephate, an insecticide otherwise known as Orthene." Use to control a weevil infestations. If cars are exposed, "the acephate [will eat] their paint job."
A warrant is a public record.
"Murder sells magazines. Celebrity murder sells millions of magazines. O.J., Robert Blake. You can dine out on those guys for months."
"The Fourth Ammendment says [the police] can get a telephonic warrant."
The words "confiscated property, possession, transaction -- sounds like someone with a legal background."
"Tampering with a crime scene is punishable by jail time."
Kinescope, also known as a flipbook, is where a series of photos are flipped together to create a movie.
"A muzzle flash is just a combination of hot dust and carbon monoxide followed by a projectile."
Prop pistols have a starburst muzzle flash; real guns don't. "Prop pistols don't use a projectile, but they're still dangerous. What Prop pistols use is a blank firing device and it creates a slide and that causes a star-shaped burst."
"Anti-aliasing software [will] change an image from analog to digital-- gives us 256 shades on a grey scale. The human eye can only see 30 to 50."
Extreme
"Movado watches are registered."
When dirt and dust is on the eyelashes, it "means, she was in a confined space."
Classic signs of asphyxiation due to suffocation is "brusing on both sides of the face, [and the] frenuium is torn."
"Bound, kept in a confined space, this sounds like kidnapping."
C-4 explosives is made from "RDX mixed with petroleum and glycerin plasticizer."
"O. D. Green is the standard military issue" for C-4 wrappers.
A "Pre-nup with an escalator clause" is one that "makes more money the longer [the spouse] stays alive."
"Gravel is a lousy surface for shoe prints."
"Magnesium carbonate and silicate, chalk and some sort of a drying agent. These compounds are usually combined for athletes to keep their hands dry."
Deadline
"It's not often that the shooter doesn't get to see his own victum."
Las Sombras, aka. The Shadows, is a Pro-Castro group. Thought to be "a myth, a way for politicians to explain all the violence they they can't control in Miami."
When a gun is fired, gunshot residue (GSR) will get on the hands. It can be removed by "apparently washing it off with tequila or [...] wear gloves."
Las Sombras "target law-abiding Cuban Americans [with bombs] who have the gall to speak out against Castro."
"Battery [from smoke detector,] thermostat is the action switch. And the clock is a timer. Ingredients of a home made bomb."
A night scope with an image intensifier can enhance light photons to find an "image. Leave the lens open, the longer the exposure the greater the chance we have some light in the image. And in the blank space surrounding the print lines will burn an image onto the film."
"Most answering machines aren't perfectly alligned. The audio is either written too high or too low on the tape stream. When the eraser head wipes the tape it could miss some of the audio."
Witness to Murder
Pre-logic is the mental disorder where the subject "has a difficultly distingushing between fantasy and reality." "No jury would find him compentent." CSI: Miami - Witness to Murder
"3 out of 10 people stash a gun in their car."
When the gun clip is full, the only way to tell if a bullet was in the chamber of the gun is to "find the bullet and the casing."
Double lividity is when "the blood settles twice" in a corpse. They "probably brought her here lying on one side, dumped her lying on the other."
Double lividity typically occurs when "killed someplace else and dumped here." NCIS - The Good Samaritan
Breaking a light bulb when it is on will cause "the air to rushed in, oxidation caused the filament to change color." [Video: CSI- Miami - Witness to Murder- Bulbs.mpg]
Smith & Wessen revolver is a .45, has "five lands and grooves, with a right hand twist. There's only one weapon that I know with generals like that."
"With new bills, it's very probable, that only six sets of hands have touch them. The Bereau of Engraving is entirely mechanized." Two of those hands are probably "the Fed [and] bank teller."
"Most people, when they have accidents, they call 911. They don't cover them up."
"Irreversible D.I.C. - Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation - it means his blood won't clot."
"I know you tried to wash it, but DNA is a funny thing and it has a tendency to hang around."
Wannabe
"Most knife murders are sloppy." A professional will make stabs in one place, usually the heart.
"La hormiga culona-- leaf cutter ants. It's a Columbian dish" where the ants are eaten fried.
Edmond Locard is "the father of modern forensics."
"Polyisopreme with a trace amount of ammonia. Isoprene- is latex. Ammonia turns it into liquid latex."
"They use liquid latex on lottery tickets." Its the scratch off stubstance.
"When a girl has no pockets, you keep things in one of two places: in your shoe or in your bra."
"Shallow cuts [are] hesitation marks. Classic indicator of a suicide."
Hard Luck
Rape victims carry defensive weapons like "O.C. spray, a whistle, and a switchblade. Self-defense and self-preservation."
Maggot Debridement - "Flies are always first witness to a crime. Smell blood a mile away. The flies lay their eggs in the exposed wound? Which hatch as maggots. Maggots ate the necrotic tissue, killing any bacteria, preventing an infection. So, the maggots kept her alive." [Video: CSI- Miami - Hard Time- Flys.mpg]
"I told her she'd pull through. The AMA doesn't advertise it, but sometimes a patient just hearing [positive reenforcement] can make it so."
"So a 2 x 4-- construction site. It's a weapon of opportunity." No premeditated.
It's "so wierd how certain women seek out criminal celebraties." "No less than eight women who visit him regularly [in jail.]"
Vidalia onions are a "Yellow Granex type F hybrid onion. Sucrose at high concentrations. There's only one place where they grow -- the southern counties of the state of Georgia."
The cardinal rule of inmate prison guards, "Never-- and I mean never-- let an inmate know anything about you."
"When a victum goes to the morgue, the ME bags and tags everything. Fine tooth comb, because it's evidence."
The Oath
"They hit one of us [cops,] they hit us all."
The camera in cop cars record to a "tape that plays in a loop. It's activated when you hit the light bars."
"The thing about bruses, normal burses occur when vessels break underneath the skin. [Internal bleeding occurs] in the muscles. It will take a day or two for them to rise to the surface [of the skin.]"
Hearing loss "in the 140 decibal range, that's like a jet engine or gun shot."
Not Landing
"Manganese Dioxide fused with Potassium Hydroxide create Potassium Permanganate. It's primarily used to disinfect cocaine. It makes it totally pure. The South American drug trade is dieing to get their hands on this stuff. The DEA has a restriction on it."
"Fly away homes. Suburbia on the runway. For the new commuter. Fly into Orlando for a meeting, home for dinner."
Respiratory Arrest, when caused by suffocation an engine's combustion, "carbon monoxide starved his body of oxygen. CO poisioning usually turns the skin red." Some people with low hemoglobin are anemic resulting in no redness.
"You key [a motorized vehichle,] you're sending a message [using another's] pridy and joy" as the conduit.
"The weakest part of any exhause system is where the pipe is welded to the muffler." This is ofter the point where carbon monoxide can get into the cabin of a vehichle.
"Carbon monoxide -- You can't see it. You can't smell it. Poor guy, he didn't even have a chance." [Video: CSI- Miami - Not Landing- CO2.mpg]
With autopilot engaged, a " plane flys itself until it's told otherwise."
Ice could affect a plane if it had "flown into a rain cloud. Wings could have iced up. Ice changes the shape of the wing. It disrupts the airflow. A good pilot could have regained control before it would have [crashed.]"
Pinhole cameras now are tiny. "needs almost no light, high-resolution, wide field of view." "They hold focus very well from very far to very close." "Camera [...] transmitting outside of the house. 2.4 Gigahertz transmitter. Broadcasts in any direction upto 200 feet."
The "SpyFinder will help detect any hidden survalence equipment. This scanner will see any camera that sees it." [Video: CSI- Miami - Not Landing- SpyFinder.mpg]
An "energizer that sends a constant signal down the wire. And this WireTracer, tracks that signal."
"Explosive was lead picrate. Basically buy the ingredients in any home improvement store. It's real sensitive to shock, heat, friction."
Even though the ingredients can be bought "legally. Possessing or manufacturing an explosive device is a fellony" which carries a sentence of "three years minimum."
Ninhydrin spray will bring out vegetiable oil in fabric. When it is "washed, the pigment washed away but oil is heavier than water so the oil stayed imbedded in the fibers. That means it's there, we just can't see it."
Rap Sheet
"60 degree [...] water rain down on our victum. Gave her hyperthermia. Mimic's death, respiratory system/blood pressure, bottoms out. That's why [you can't] get any vitals."
With "a concussion, memory loss is common."
"Polyvinlechronide, PVC as in plastic. Thermal plastic [...] for printing on clothing as part of the decal."
There are "after market safty systems, like the black box in an airplane. This system has 45 impact censors. When the system is tripped, the driver is notified" via the company. CSI: Miami - Rap Sheet [Video: CSI- Miami - Rap Sheet- Safety System.mpg]
MIA/NYC-NonStop
"There are thousands of cases of upper respiratory inflamation reported by people who were living in the facentity of the 911 attack. [Those affected] routinely expectorates flum in order to clear his throat." The flum may contain "Mercury, asphestus, lead [along with] carosene and petrolume -- jet fuel."
New York has the death penality, but "has not executed since '76. [Because of] politics."
"There are only a few alloys to make keys. New duplicate keys are all coded in red acrylic now. [When a duplicate was used,] red shavings were left behind." CSI: Miami - MIA/NYC-NonStop [Video: CSI- Miami - MIA-NYC - NonStop Keys.mpg]
Innocent
A symptom of strangling is petechial hemorrhage.
Hang marks on the neck imply an "up close and personal, probably someone she knew," attack.
It's tough to redress a dead person to prevent "no bunching. It's tough to redress dead weight."
"Russian Caviar, 200 bucks a spoon full" CSI: Miami - Innocent [Video: CSI- Miami - Innocent - Caviar.mpg]
"Neat contribution means there was no mixture of fluids." Usually talking about semen. "You were by yourself."
"The one thing that Hydrocloric acid (HCL) fumes could destroy was [magnetic] tape." CSI: Miami - Innocent [Video: CSI- Miami - Innocent - DestroyTape.mpg]
"Your wisdom teeth erupt when your 18 years old. They're the last to erupt." CSI: Miami - Innocent [Video: CSI- Miami - Innocent - WisdomTeeth.mpg]
Porn Creep - When a person watches so much porn, that "it gets to be so a guy can't be with a real woman anymore."
Lost Son
"That stippling right here means that he was shot at close range." [Video: CSI- Miami - Lost Son - Close Range Shot.mpg @ 7:44, 8:37]
Grass Carp (Triploid Grass Carp) is a fish "specifically engineered to control aquatic vegetation in the canals. The county dumps. They eat five times their weight in vegetation." [Video: CSI- Miami - Lost Son - Grass Carp.mpg @ 14:01]
No words, but a liquid can show prints on a wipped down car. [Video: CSI- Miami - Lost Son - Wiped Prints.mpg @ 23:52, 47]
"A palm -- it's not as easy as a finger print. A lot more surface to scan and compare."
"Take a piece of pure graphite, put it in a ceramic box with some chemicals. Slide the whole thing into a pressure cooker. It simulates the temperature and pressure 15 miles below the earth's surface. Graphite vaporizes. After three days, they pull it out the ceremic box. Break it open. You got yourself a [real] diamond crystal [...] at a fraction of a price as diamonds from a mine. It's like nature only a million times faster." [Video: CSI- Miami - Lost Son - Making Diamonds.mpg @ 25:00]
"You can't scrape a real emerald."
"Cars are such a bad investment."
No words, but indentions on paper can be brought out with sprinkles of pencil lead. [Video: CSI- Miami - Lost Son - Seeing Indentions.mpg @ 48:13]
"Hydroxyphorboloxide from the Manchineel Tree. It's only found in Hell's Bay Where the Ocean meets the Glades. There's only one way in [to Hell's Bay.]"
"There are many reasons for a [gun to] misfire, aren't there. Faulty mechanism. Low grade ammunition. Poor gun maintenance."
Pro Per
Definition of a drive-by shooting - "A shooter aiming at the whole party, not the individual." "Multiple bullet strikes. Sporadic gun fire. The [shooter] didn't care who he hit."
Propria persona - "He's defending himself. [...] He has a fool for a client."
"He knows enough to ask for araignment, prelim and bail all in one hearing. So the clock is ticking whether [...] the evidence ready or not."
"GSR on our defendants shirt -- he was in close proximity to a recently fired weapon." [Video @ 24:00] "But it doesn't prove that he's our shooter. Not in a court of law."
If you don't rush the evidence reports, then there's "no report, [thus] no discovery for [the defense]."
A motion to suppress can be used as "a stall tactic, but it's within the letter of the law."
"The law say you can hire a court certified-expert to examine the evidence and the procedure in the [CSI] lab."
"According to the FBI's manual on general rifling characteristics, [six right nine-millimeter bullet is] the most common rifling in use in a firearm."
The different methods for finding fingerprints: Small-particle reagent, Sudan black, Gentian violet.
Shrimp trawlers attach these metal chains called ticklers to the bottom of their nets. They drag them along to scare up the shrimp." Tickers will damage the sea floor and break up coral. [Video @ 41:55]
Under the Influence
"Damage on the [vehicle] is front and center; so that takes timing" if there's the intent for suicide.
"One little laserpointer [in the back] and girls are shaking in their heals" enough to rob them without incident. [Video @ 7:15]
"Both arms are folded under his body, like to tried to break his fall. Impossible to do at five stories."
"Arc welding - steal beams joined by an iron-powder electrode. The process throws out metal particles [made out of] iron, cover in thin layer of calcium oxide , calcium floride, silicone dioxide. [Called] weld spatter." [Video @ 26:57]
"Some uniforms are made from Synthetic Polymer - an entangled fiber pulp-composite. Used in high-strength polyester."
Limonene - "It's a common ingredient in leaf-shining spray. Suppose to keep plants looking clean." [Video @ 33:23]
Broken glass that is "tempered, [...but] with no membrane [...] is from a side window [on a automobile.]"
"The number one cause of death among pregnant women [...] is homicide at the hands of the father of the baby."
When throwing an object, "where ever you plant [your forward foot], you point [where the object goes.]" [Video @ 47:27]
People have different methods of killing. "Stabbings are so physical." [Video @ 48:47] Other methods, such as a push is passive. [Video @ 39:29]
Murder in a Flash
"Flash Mobs - People are contacted by email to show up at a specific time and do something freaky and then run off." "[Flash mobs are] brainstorms of restlest kids. One of 'em gets some idea, like converging on a golf course, and sends it out to a bunch of other kids with nothing better to do. [...] Every flash mob has a theme." "Flash [mob entrance] is determined by month of birth. Makes it look more random."
Titainum knee replacement serial number. Connect this to NCIS above. [Video @ 8:42]
"Gamma hydroxybutric acid, [...] GHB. Date rate drug. Males use it to get high." A chemistry teacher "could make that blindfolded." "One componet of GHB, Sodium hydroxide, and you can find that in any lab."
"Ginger, cinnamon, oil of wintergreen... That's lip plumper. It's the latest in beauty trickery. The ingredients make all the blood rush to the lips and sting." Also known as Lip Sting.
Peacocks can be used as "urban guard dogs" to call out when people approach.
Blood can begin to smell like copper because "of the iron in the hemoglobin."
Epithelials have a tendency to get caught in [the] raised numbers [of a credit card.] [Video @ 40:09]
"If you were to beat someone to death, there's a chance you'd injure yourself."
"You mentioned that you were having trouble healing this cut [on the hands]. I believe it's because you [are] wearing leather gloves."