3. About Kathy (as seen on kathyreichs.com)
Kathy Reichs’s first novel Déjà
Dead catapulted her to fame when
it became a New York Times
bestseller and won the 1997 Ellis
Award for Best First Novel.
Temperance Brennan novels
in addition to Virals and Seizure,
two young adult fiction novels
following the adventures of
Temperance Brennan’s niece.
Dr. Reichs is also a producer of the
hit Fox TV series, Bones, which is
based on her work and her novels.
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5.
6. About Kathy
Dr. Reichs has travelled to Rwanda to testify
at the UN Tribunal on Genocide, and helped
exhume a mass grave in Guatemala.
As part of her work at JPAC (Formerly CILHI) she
aided in the identification of war dead from World
War II, Korea, and Southeast Asia. Dr. Reichs also
assisted with identifying remains found at
ground zero of the World Trade Center
following the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
8. About Kathy
Dr. Reichs is one of only eighty-two forensic
anthropologists ever certified by the American
Board of Forensic Anthropology.
9. Imagine this:
I stared at the woman flying through
the trees. Her head was forward, chin
raised, arms flung backward like the
tiny chrome goddess on the hood of a
Rolls Royce. But the tree lady was
naked, and her body ended at the waist.
Blood-coated leaves and branches
imprisoned her. (chapter 1, first par.,
p.1)
18. “There’s been a complaint” – Larke Tyrell
Chapter 8, p. 84-85
Unprofessional behaviour of a nature
sufficient to compromise the
investigation…
Entering a site w/o authority and
mishandling of evidence
Trespass
19. Of course…
Our HEROINE had to do something…
She had to prove her innocence
INVESIGATE ON HER OWN
Her first lead was the FOOT
20. WHO OWNS THE FOOT?
Crash related/
Missing person incident?
A tragic, savage rundown
by a bunch of a wild
coyotes
21. With the help of Tempe’s
EX-husband, Pete and
Primrose Hobbs, they
were soon unto
something…
22. However, a few days later…
PRIMROSE
HOBBS was
found dead at
Riverbank inn
A black volvo
almost ran
down Tempe
her house was
raided
-bulglars?
-???
23. She became more anxious and curious…
Severed foot? Native-American?
Male?
Who was out to get her?
Who owned the abandoned
cabin/courtyard house?
Does it have a relation with the
plane crash?
24. As she went on with her little
adventure, she came across
accounts of more death and
was also putting herself in the
face of danger…
25. Now let’s start answering some of the questions…
Who owns the cabin???
H&F
investment Group, LLP
April 10, 1949
Under the name of Prentice
Dashwood
26. Who owns the foot???
Primary suspects are…
Daniel Wahnetah
George Adair
Jeremiah Mitchell
A random passenger from Air TRansSouth 228
Let’s
see the description suggested by findings…
Elderly male. Native-Am ancestry. Height five foot six.
Dead last summer. Found near Arthur/H&F property.
TransSouth passenger? Probably.
27. What’s up with the cabin???
Diary
of Martin Patrick Veckhoff sent by his wife,
Marion Louise Willoughby Veckhoff
Code names:
Omega
Ilus
Khaffre
Chac
Itzmana
- they went to the cabin & found…
32. Why did AirTransSouth 228 crashed? How?
“
Eighty-eight people were dead because
one man was preoccupied about losing his
seat.”
Walter Lindenbaum
35. Back to the cabin issue…
Cannibalism
Took place in the basement of
the courtyard house they found
near the crash site…
36. It was a sort of cult…
The Main
characters of the
story exchanged a
few stories on the
matter like that of
Pope Innocent III
(1215 A.D.)
37. The words hoc est corpus meum were to be taken
literally… at Mass, the bread and wine are exchanged
into the body and blood of Christ.
Innocent decreed that the act isn’t SYMBOLIC, it’s
REAL… [and] defined the most sacred ceremonial
act of Christianity as true God-eating.
Hostia – Latin, sacrificial victim
38. Let’s interrupt this and get back to Ms. Tempe…
Who (by this time in the story) is kidnapped and
brought to the Riverbank inn after receiving a
mysterious fax…
By who?
Ralph Stover
39. Mysterious fax…
On page 3777
Ilus – Henry Arlen Preston – 1943
Khaffre – Sheldon Brdie – 1949
Omega – A.A. Birkby – 1959
Normer – Martin Patrick Veckhoff
Sinuhe – C.A. Birkby
Itzmana – John Morgan - 1972
Arrigatore F.L. Warren
Rho – William Glemi Shermann – 1979
Chac – John Franklin Battle
Ometeotl – Parker Davenport
42. H&F – Hell Fire
Flourished in the 18th C
in England and Ireland
Sir Francis Dashwood
Had a healthy
skepticism for religion
43. According to Simon Midkiff…
“It started out as frivolous blasphemy… that eating the
dead negated the finality of death.”
“A bloody accident. A young man showed up at the
lodge one summer. God knows what he was doing way
out there. There was a lot of drinking, a fight, the boy
was killed. Prentice (Dashwood) proposed that
everyone-“… “Prentice cut slivers of muscle from the
boy’s thigh and required everyone to partake… it was a
pact. Each was a participant and equally guilty. No one
would talk about the boy’s death.”
Simon Midkiff (p. 412-413)
44.
45. Answers to the question… (again)
WHO OWNS THE FOOT?
Jeremiah Mitchell
Why did AirTransSouth 228 crashed? How?
Pipe smoke started the fire + electrical failure
What’s up with the cabin? Who owns it?
It was Hell Fire’s (H&F Investment Group, LLP) property,
where they performed cult rituals.
Who was out to get her?
Ralph Stover, because Tempe knew too much and because
he wanted to get in the “inner circle” of H&F.
