Prosecution's Bug Expert Struggles On Stand:08/01/2002 Westefield Trial Nears Finish Lap!

Court TV ^ | August 1, 2002 | Harriet Ryan

[Freedom2specul8]

mummification, if he could just say dried out...he believes the body was "dried out"

[Jaded]

Yeah, but Rodriguez was really bad, IMO. Date of death before she was missing.

[cyncooper]

Dusek admitted that his anthropologist is not qualified as an entimologist

Nonsense. Rodriguez was never represented to be an expert in entomology and that was emphasized on his direct by Dusek. He thoroughly emphasized his credentials as an anthropoligist with an interest in entomology.

[Southflanknorthpawsis]

As an entomologist who studied forensic entomology (very potentially lucrative and interesting, but I didn't feel like working murder cases every day), and reading between the journalistic lines, I think the prosecution has a big problem here, if the jury understands it. It seems very unlikely that the suspect was the one who put the girl's body where it was found.

WOW.........thank you for this contribution. You are the closest thing to an expert we'll find on these threads. Very interesting !!!

[Freedom2specul8]

lost feed

He can't tell us how long it takes a body to change from its natural condition to the state of condition the body was in ..ME's report?

[Jaded]

Yes. That's how we know he and his friend found the body because there was a dead dog near by. Also one of them had to go home to get their licsense. He took a digital camera with him. He called LE to tell them he had pics and he would bring them in, LE came and picked them up post haste.

[dread78645]

how long did it take....the conditions he gave, those being met..answers being repeated time after time..it happens quickly. He can tell you it doesn't take days.

Ping me when they get to Jan 15th ...

[Krodg]

Great post. I really liked your ending.

[UCANSEE2]

Experimintal data is from missouri and mo doesn't have santa ana winds.Mo has a lot of water..lakes, rivers.. Yeah, but you would never know if from the last week or so. It's so hot! , but NO WIND. NO WIND last night, boy did that suck.

Just cause you have a POOL , KIM , you have water near you, REAL NEAR!

:)

[FresnoDA]

Tell us as a local, about body putrification in the Show-Me state?

[Southflanknorthpawsis]

*snicker*

.........awwwwwwwwwwwwww

[Lauratealeaf]

The bodies in missouri they are moist, wet etc.. do they start mummification process objection, sustained rephrase...did you ever study bodies placed in dry desert type of environment. court reporter reads question. Answer..YES. 258 posted on 8/1/02 12:49 PM Central by ~Kim4VRWC's~

I can hear a new song coming on....Moist Missouri Bodies Waltz..

[crystalk]

No, as a matter of fact, since I am using Hebrew, there is just one spelling and that is mem-vav-khet-mem-dalet.

Of course, many other words (dozens, not millions) do also have the value 98, and in gematrial thinking, all of those words and their meanings are linked.

It is quite literally true that Muhamamad's name is mud, and this IS the source of the expression.

Automatically, this is a usable code, just substitute mud = botz, in a letter or on internet when you do not want to be endangered by having slurred the Prophet.

[Freedom2specul8]

in normal situations flies would typically go to natural orfices mentioned earlier...

(IMHO prosecution is trying to get witness to admit that this wasn't a normal condition..what I've been saying dems)

In this case the insects did not act typically....the facial area for example.

Did he see any maggots or flies in facial area, no..and no evidence in photos.

He had a chance to look at dr l's report...and faulkners report, and no mention of maggot mass in head reason. He doesn't remember hearing about 1 fly in the eye socket and he doesn't knwo why they didn't go there and dusek is asking WHY the flies didn't act typically cuz he doesn't know..

[VRWC_minion]

Fly's didn't act typically because not in the head. Note-this guy should have been called by Dusek.

[UCANSEE2]

He called LE to tell them he had pics and he would bring them in, LE came and picked them up post haste.

WOuldn't it be nice if they hadn't given them to police, and then released them to the public? And if they had shown a big difference in between them and the ones the police took?

I don't think that really would be the case as I don't think police (even if they were screwing up) would have actually altered the scene, but I have been wrong before.

[spectre]

BAWHAHAHAHAHA!!

Gawd, are you listening to the way Dusek is cross-examining the witness? Condescending jerk!

sw

[Freedom2specul8]

He doesn't know why the bugs didn't act typically. is explaining why bugs need moisture...

assume this body is a mummified or dried body...LOST FEED.. Drats!!!!!

[truth_seeker]

This would lead me to believe that with the entire SEARCH TEAM CROWDED around the body before the LE's even arrive, that any evidence found on the body would be invalidated.

However another way to speculate would be:

The entire SEARCH TEAM was briefed by LE, warned to not trample the site, if something is found
The entire SEARCH TEAM followed LE instructions, and when this body was found, they kept clear of the immediate area.

Depending on how one views things, there are often "other interpretations." As a matter of fact, "other interpretations" is what Feldman is hoping the jurors will consider, for the 'body' of physical evidence.

[FresnoDA]

Fly's didn't act typically because not in the head. Note-this guy should have been called by Dusek.

HUH???

WHY??

All of the other EGGSPURTS Dusek has called are doing an equally good job to ruin his case...why would one more EGGSPURT matter....

LOL