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1. 10 Strange forensic cases That puzzled
the pros

2. How do you draw someone’s else blood from the convict’s arm?
• Ask Dr. John Schneeberger, convicted of
two counts of sexual assault in 1991
• How did he do it? He saved blood from his
patients and implanted this blood in a
thin rubber under his forearm skin next to
his vein
• Outsmarted by forensics – sentenced to six
years in prison

3. When one Person is Two Persons
• “Zoo Man” Thomas Dee Huskey, charged with
murdering 4 women is also the British
Philip Daxx whose role is to protect Huskey
from his alter ego, Kyle
• Confused? So was the jury, resulting in a
mistrial
• But the forensic evidence that led to
Huskey in the first place eventually got
him a 44 year sentence for 3 separate rape
cases

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5. Trash bags and a floral duvet
• John Taylor put in an uncanny amount of
effort to wrap the body of his murder
victim
• Plastic bags, dog collar, zip ties, trash
bags, twine and the weirdest final wrap, a
floral duvet
• Thanks to the idiotically large number of
wrappings, forensics were able to trace
the murder back to Taylor

6. Are Bite Marks like FingerPrints?
• According to a certain bite-mark expert
Michael West, yes. He even has a name for
it: The West Phenomenon; a procedure only
he could perform while wearing yellow
protective goggles
• James Earl Gates was arrested for the
murder of Kathy Mabry based on West’s
theory. He has since been found innocent
and the authenticity of the West
Phenomenon, remains a mystery

7. When a DNA Test Points Towards the Wrong Guy
• Yes, that is possible. A woman was gunned
down on July 18, 2008 and her car was
stolen. Eventually the car was found and
the saliva from a cigarette butt found
under its seat led to the wrong guy
• The right guy was the wrong guy’s twin.
Thanks to fingerprints found on the car,
the DNA test and security footage were
able to lead to the true criminal’s arrest

8. The Curious Case of Mary Rogers
• 1841: The body of Mary Rogers was found
floating in the Hudson River with brutal
markings on her body.
• That, her last known whereabouts, combined
with her clothes and personal items found
hidden in a bush AND an eyewitness who saw
her entering the same woods with six men
on the night of her disappearance, could
lead to no conclusion. Forensics remain
baffled at the overwhelming amount of
evidence, and no conclusion.

9. The Highway of Tears
• This is an actual piece of road in British
Columbia that is known for the disappearance of
50 women in 30 years
• Sounds like the work of a serial killer, right?
So everyone thought. Bobby Jack Fowler was
linked to three of the murders via DNA
sampling, and was subsequently, arrested.
• But the murders continued even after Fowler was
imprisoned in 1996. No progress has been made
on the case, and the highway remains in tears.

10. The Boy with Newspaper Organs
• Kendrick Johnson, 17, was found dead in his high
school’s gym; cause of death: falling headfirst
into a rolled up gym mat and suffocating
• The family wasn’t convinced. A second autopsy
performed revealed that the brain, lungs, heart,
liver and all essential organs between the
pelvis and the skull were gone, the hollow
spaces filled with newspaper
• The funeral home owner believed that the organs
were destroyed naturally but the presence of
newspapers continues to perplex forensics

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12. The 1864 Dead Body that Refuses to Decompose
• William M. Shy was shot in the head in 1864
during the American Civil War
• In 1977, a forensic anthropologist Dr. Bill Bass
was put in charge of investigating a case of
vandalism at Shy’s grave – only to conclude that
it cannot be Shy’s body since it still had some
flesh bits on it and joints held in place,
whereas according to the timeline, his body
should have been complete ashes
• Weird, right? Not quite. It was the cast-iron
coffin which kept all insects, oxygen and
moisture out, making the decomposition extremely
slow

13. Feet Fetish
• Starting March 2007, tennis shoes started
washing up on the shores of Georgia Strait
– 5 years, 11 shoes, some with feet still
in them
• Even though one of the shoes led to an
identifiable man’s death, the coroner
concluded that it was probably a weather
related death
• And the forensics were left thinking: What
of all the shoes?

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