HI guys...Ok, I appreciate that wonders cuz it really is harder to wade through then the rest of the testimony.
Capps, wrt:only the face and hands being mummified..even the ME examiner agreed that ALL the skin "that remained" was mummified..(see my earlier excerpts from ME's testimony. He said the body could have been there up to 3 1/2 weeks.. The anthropologist who studies mummification said 4-6 weeks: See that excerpt here..and that the exact date isn't an exact science.
The body was found on the 27th
MEDICAL EXAMINER
3 1/2 weeks = 21 + 3.5 days = 24.5 days
ANTHROPOLOGIST
4 - 6 weeks = 28 - 42 days
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The people who studied bodies have more to say than bugs..before you say that's a week argument...the testimony shows the following:
Goff, the professor from HA said that bugologists are unable to give exact dates.
The defense witness from missouri has never seen a body in the condition danielle's was in...so how can he tell.. (see transcripts)
I dont' remember how many times haskill said he has spent on mummified remains.
I think that why it's so hard to understand is the mummification factor---none of the expert witnesses with the exception of the anthropologist have spent that much time on mummifed bodies in that condition. Unless someone can show different.
Actually, the ME said 6 weeks to ten days.
Goff, the professor from HA said that bugologists are unable to give exact dates
Not one of the forensic experts gave an exact date. All have overlapping estimates of PMI, however, except for the ding-dong "mummyologist." There is concordance among the four bug guys and the ME.
The mummy guy had Danielle selling cookies to DW as a, well, a mummy!
Kim, mummification is a natural part of decomposition in some cases, and is not all that rare. I will guarantee that most ME's have seen at least a couple of cases during their tenure.