Peterson's Mistress Seeks To Stop Sale Of Nude Photos

NBC4.com ^ | Oct 21, 2003

[runningbear]

hummmm, journalist mixing the meaning of words! Not sure, but are 2 different things?

Mixing type of scent dogs, meaning dogs smelling for scent of deceased persons, dead.... so they are called cadaver dogs? Wow, more thoughts to sort out and ponder for insights! ;o)

[Devil_Anse]

Perfect!

[Devil_Anse]

Oh, hey, you think maybe you better just add in a line about holding McDonald's coffee while reading the posts?

[runningbear]

LOL... No, on that thread it was posted, I had to put a heads up, ALERT!!! Warning if at work, don't click the link! LOL... ((just made them more so to do it...)) ;o)

[Protagoras]

I think it's as soon as they start to smell.

If that is the case, a body as fresh as hers had to be would be a dead person, not a cadaver. So what would the dog find?

[Devil_Anse]

ROFL!!!!

[runningbear]

ROFL.... help me, I falling and can't get up!... ;o)

[runningbear]

ah, made my day.... ;o)

[Devil_Anse]

Unfortunately, they'd have to switch to Dead Person Sniffing Dogs.

[Conspiracy Guy]

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[Conspiracy Guy]

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[Conspiracy Guy]

You shouldn't have clicked. Didn't you see it was a trap?

[Conspiracy Guy]

If your day is made then I have done something good.

[Protagoras]

What I'm trying to find out is if a person who has just died has a different smell than they did a short time before they died. If so, how long? A minute? hour? day?

[runningbear]

you sure did... thanks,,,,and many other freepers with the humor on this thread today... ;o)

[Conspiracy Guy]

FR can be one of the funniest places on moment, then doom the next, etc. It is an emotional roller coaster. Keep yor arms up to maximize the effect. But that makes typing hard.

[Protagoras]

I don't think that's the smell.

[Devil_Anse]

We did ponder that question when Geragos and McAllister made a big deal of how the "cadaver dog didn't make a hit" when placed in Scott's boat.

Some of us thought, well, maybe she hadn't been dead long enough for a cadaver dog to smell her!

I am told that decomposition starts fairly quickly--and of course decomposition is what produces the gases that the cadaver dog is trained to detect. So I am thinking that at room temperature a dead body probably has begun emitting its distinctive smell within a few hours.

Velveeta knows a whole lot more about these biological matters than I do. Vel, at room temperature, how long do you think a person has to be dead b/f their body starts to smell (to a cadaver dog) like a cadaver?

[Velveeta]

About 24 hours (give or take...depends on factors such as environmental temp)

Normal body temp at 98.6
1st hour after death the temp drops about 3 degrees and then about 1 degree per hour up to "around" 24 hours.

Decompostion actually begins when the body begins to heat back up via decompostion gases and the process of liquification begins.