Forensic Science - 3/14 - 5th Period

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Abby was pouring over a notebook at a lab table when the students entered. "John, Parker, Zero, Will, Billy, Lana and Hermione all have perfect attendance. Lucas already talked to me about his absence. Everyone else should come see me and have a reason for their absences or a bribe for your teacher."

"Now, today we're going to be working on identifying bodies where there's not much left to the bodies." Abby turned on the overhead to show a skeleton. "Due to method of murder, you're not always able to find fingerprints or identify by facial features. Sometimes you need to use other methods to identify the victim."

Abby gave a lecture on how to identify skeletons and teeth, showing pictures and x rays. Opening the door to the crime scene, Abby grinned at the students. "Let's get to the fun part."

A half collapsed garage stood on a grassy lawn, one wall torn apart and laying in pieces of shrapnel along the ground. "This is the final resting place of two people. Early this morning a pipe bomb went off and destroyed this building and killed the two people inside of it. There wasn't a lot left, so it's up to you guys to find a way to identify the remains and match them up with a file in missing persons. Also, here's a hint, make sure the injuries to the bodies match the injuries consistent with an explosion."

Abby glared at the garage. "There'll be pieces of a skeleton that you'll have to find. The other "dead" body," Abby used finger quotes here. "Is being a big pain and refusing to wear my really nifty skeleton t-shirt. So just pretend Miley is all burned and exploded."

[ooc: OCD up! Play!]

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Re: Sign In

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Zero Hopeless-Savage

Lecture

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Take Notes, sleep, get your chat on.

Handout
Time of Death:
Cause of death:
Other injuries:
Method of ID:

[ooc: Handout = things you find out in crime scene threads]

Re: Lecture

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker was thoroughly grossed out. And fascinated. And getting plenty of bad ideas of how to fake people's deaths. Possibly her own.

Re: Lecture

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

Mac frowned a little. She'd missed class? She couldn't remember not being there at any point.

Possibly because while she participated in class, she apparently didn't sign in. *facepalm* Twice.

Re: Lecture

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Will was kind of grossed out by all the pictures in today's class. She had to remind herself that when she'd chosen to sign up for forensic science, she knew that it was likely less about well-dressed people in a parlor accusing each other of murder and more about body parts.

Re: Lecture

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Billy wasn't exactly grossed out, but he did wince.

Re: Lecture

[the_merriest]

Rikku took notes. And reminded herself to talk to Professor Abby after class about absences. Whoops.

Crime Scene

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Scattered around the garage and lawn are bones. They'll have fractures and burns consistent with an explosion. The garage itself is creaky but stable.

[Feel free to mod finding bones, bits of skin, pipe bomb making supplies.]

Re: Crime Scene

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker picked up what looked like a leg bone, then shook her head. "Just when I think it's gotten beyond weird, it gets worse. Eugh." She swallowed hard. "Right."

Re: Crime Scene

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana carefully collected bones and pieces of skin and various pieces of pipe bombs. She made sure to photgraph and label everything concisely.

Re: Lab

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

Once Mac was done talking with Miley, she went and started working the scene, first collecting up a bunch of bomb bits into a bag.

Re: Crime Scene

[notawitch.livejournal.com]

Will grabbed and bagged a bunch of the pipe bomb supplies, before very hesitatingly picking up one of the bones.

"Ewww," she muttered to herself while bagging it.

Re: Crime Scene

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"Uh," Billy pointed. "Arm." gives Oz money.

Re: Crime Scene

[the_merriest]

Rikku sifted through the wreckage looking for bones. Not real bones, she reminded herself. She bagged a number of them and took them over to the lab.

Re: Crime Scene

[swerval_zero]

Zero started prowling the crime scene collecting various...bits. "Ew. I think this is skin," she announced, dangling it by her tweezers.

I see dead people!

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Miley is not wearing a skeleton t-shirt but she is laying on the ground, a piece of the tin roof laying over legs.

[ooc: Miley's not really dead, so normal playing rules apply. Please don't do anything to the character without clearing it with the player first.]

Re: I see dead people!

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Miley is dead. It's funny how she keeps sneaking bites of cookies from a bag hidden under the piece of roof.

Lab

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Play with the tools, match the teeth with the records, look at the bones.

Re: Lab

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Lana carefully began matching the teeth she'd collected with the records. She examined all of the evidence, trying to make sense of what she had.

Re: Lab

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"Ugh." Parker glared at the remains, then looked around for Zero to help. "Can this get more gross?"

Re: Lab

[the_merriest]

Rikku examined all of the bits and teeth. And tried to match up what must have gone where, and how the explosion happened.

Re: Lab

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"Shin bone's connected to the, knee bone, knee bone's connected to the, thigh bone..." Billy sang as he attempted to assemble the skeleton. He might be getting a few things mixed up.

CHUNG CHUNG

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Tell Abby what you think happened and who you identified at the crime scene. Also, she's here to talk about your absences.

[ooc: Please mod the ID's and what you think happened in the garage.]

Re: CHUNG CHUNG

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After matching the teeth to the records of two of the people there and checking the bones of the 'missing' person, Lana felt fairly confident about her conclusions. "I believe Miley and Fred, as identified by their dental records," she pointed them out in her paperwork, "were murdered before the explosion. Both necks seem to have been broken before any of the other injuries occurred. The explosion was most likely then set to cover up the murder - make it look as if they had an accident as they were assembling a pipe bomb."

OOC

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I'm done yay!