Author: Sun Yuhua / Country:
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: Let insects tell you about insects, the little things in nature, you must be familiar with them. Ants, maggots, mosquitoes, and flies are almost everywhere in the world, but we rarely notice them in our daily lives. Yet, it is these small creatures that can become witnesses to many crimes, helping the police solve cases. Murders, drug trafficking, terrorist attacks, and abductions are all cases where they can play a role. Insects found on the victim's body can tell you the time of death; insects found on the car license plate, wipers, and radar antenna used by the criminal can reveal the route of the vehicle; insect eggs attached to marijuana leaves can tell you the origin of the drug. In a forest in the suburbs of a German city, a female body was discovered, decomposed and unrecognizable. A few days later, the victim's identity was confirmed: a 36-year-old local woman. Her marriage was in crisis due to her husband's infidelity. On the day the woman disappeared, her husband had posted missing person flyers in the neighborhood where they lived, searching for his wife. The victim's husband had a poor reputation locally, a criminal record, and had made a phone call from a phone booth near the body discovery site. Based on the collected evidence, her husband, Reggel, became the prime suspect. However, during interrogation, Reggel repeatedly claimed innocence, though the police knew he was lying. Traditional criminal investigation methods had been exhausted, yet concrete evidence to prove his guilt was lacking. Could forensic entomology, a new branch of criminal investigation science, help? The police discovered insect eggs on the victim's body and ants in Reggel's boots! The police decided to launch a new investigation. There are only a few forensic entomologists in the world, so the German police turned to Bennek, a forensic entomologist in New York, USA. A police officer took the insect egg samples to New York. Bennek examined the samples carefully and said, "Based on the size of the fly eggs, we can estimate the time the body was exposed outdoors. The development of the fly eggs indicates that the victim was thrown into the wilderness around the same time Reggel made the phone call." This seemed to implicate him as the suspect. There was even stronger evidence—the ants in his boots. This type of ant lives only in decaying trees and only moves within two meters of its nest, never straying more than two meters away. Despite Reggel's denials, the insects still proved everything. In the end, Reggel was sentenced to prison for murder. Denials and excuses were useless. Forensic entomology, which was not given much attention in the 19th century, is now considered an essential tool in criminal investigations. American scientists have established a "body farm" in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, to further study the relationship between insects and corpses. Here, dozens of corpses at different stages of decomposition are collected and placed under various conditions to study the timing and state of insect activity, providing more reliable data for the police. The ultimate goal of the research is to answer three questions: cause of death, time, and location. P98-100
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