Jurors To Hear Recorded Westerfield Tapes: Mudd Still Wrestling With Media! (VERDICT WATCH-Aug.14th)

Union Trib ^ | August 14, 2002 | San Diego Staff

[UCANSEE2]

Good idea.

[UCANSEE2]

Gee, what a contribution. See you are already on the PING LIST. Haven't seen you post much. Glad you are.

[KnutCase]

You a typesetter? I put myself thru college for seven years working as a Linotype Operator and Machinist on Linos and Intertypes. Great high paying job for college.

[Rheo]

Great post wonders.

Hope all is well with you and yours!

[Henrietta]

Yep, but why point these things out?

Just trying to add something to the discussion, hunny...!

[domestice]

Do you mean the movie "Where the Red Fern grows" ?

[domestice]

Hi! Yep, I was, mind you, past tense :-) a typesetter & proofreader. Worked in the art dept. of a company. Actually, was hired as one of the graphic artists, but they needed another typesetter, so they chose me to learn the system. It was a compugraphic typesetting system.

KnutCase, those were the days when I worked out of the home...however I get comfort in the old axiom "the hand that rocks the cradle, rules the world"
I take it you don't do linotype anymore?

[The Other Harry]

Do you mean the movie "Where the Red Fern grows" ?

That sounds correct. I'm terrible when it comes to remembering names. I do much better with numbers. I'm sure that's the same same movie.

[domestice]

Ok, I probably shouldn't do this on this thread, but the movie "Where the Red Fern Grows" is about a young boy & a hunting dog. It is a tear jerker. James Whitmore is in it. Think he plays the grandpa.

We actually have it on tape, but we haven't watched it in years! When our daughter gets bigger I would love to watch it w/ her...I think that will be a while though. She's very sensitive & I want her to understand that it is "just a movie"! And a good one at that.

[domestice]

My prayers have been going out for the jury to do the right thing, that God will direct them in their deliberations. I have also used Jaded's prayer that she posted. Many who need the prayers for sure!

[CAPPSMADNESS]

Yes, I agree, there should have been such. We called them "body slicks" but now I've learned in this trial that the correct term is "body silhouette".

Now there's a new term to add to my vocabulary! We referred to them as "nature's chalk marks" But then we called chalk marks charlies, so go figure.

Two forensic witnesses testified that there was none in this case: the ground was dry beneath the body. I think (but I'm not positive) that those two witnesses were the ME and Faulkner (the first forensic entomologist who testified). Both went to the site where the body was recovered.

I am just as confused as you are to alot of the forensics in this case....... if the entrail left a slick, then why not the entire body? The only parts mummified were the extremities and parts of the face...... And you are also correct about bodies stuffed into cramped spaces - without airflow or extremely arid/hot conditions - there is very little chance of mummification. I have personally seen bodies that have been in trunks, fridges, etc...... definitely not mummified I tell you :(