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Maggots among clues studied to identify remains

Written by DeadGirl
Sunday, 04 February 2007
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- Maggots may hold important clues to the death of a person whose remains were found alongside a road southwest of Lincoln on Jan. 26. Just like fans of television's "CSI" shows have learned: Insects found in or around a body can tell experts where and when a person died. Flies often land within seconds of someone's demise, so the presence of maggots is a telling sign. Investigators wanted to finish an autopsy this week, but the weather delayed their work, said Lancaster County Sheriff Terry Wagner on Friday. "Certainly the cold is our biggest challenge right now from a number of different perspectives," he said. Officers can't remain outdoors for too long, and the ground and remains are frozen. Evidence collection will continue this weekend, he said, and the road will remain closed until sometime next week. A public call for information about a gray 1979 Chrysler Newport in connection with the case has yielded little, Wagner said. Officials, who still don't know the person's age, sex or cause of death, have been talking to relatives of missing people. "Obviously, we don't have much to tell them," Wagner said. Investigators are hoping their forensic search for clues from the maggots and other insect life will tell them what authorities need to know. Among the investigators is a University of Nebraska-Lincoln graduate student, Tim Huntington, who's working toward a doctorate in forensic entomology. Alongside him is Melissa Connor, director of Nebraska Wesleyan University's forensic science program. Flies are "always on a dead thing," Huntington said. "They get there so quickly, they lay their eggs and they hatch. ..." But retrieving, thawing and examining such clues takes longer than the time-compressed results granted crime scene investigators on television. "It's a long process," Huntington said. "You can't rush it." He's worked nearly 30 investigations. He's scraped bugs off windshields in hit-and-run cases, sifted maggots from ketchup in food poisoning cases and found maggots in places best described in arcane criminology journals and medical textbooks. Connor's work took her to Iraq for the 2004 exhumation of mass graves, which helped prove that Saddam Hussein committed human rights violations. http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2007/02/04/news/nebraska/f5fc85838e13395f86257278001442f9.txtLINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- Maggots may hold important clues to the death of a person whose remains were found alongside a road southwest of Lincoln on Jan. 26. Just like fans of television's "CSI" shows have learned: Insects found in or around a body can tell experts where and when a person died. Flies often land within seconds of someone's demise, so the presence of maggots is a telling sign.

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taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

ORIGIN:
From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries