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Dogs trained to sniff out dead bodies

Written by DeadGirl
Thursday, 09 December 2004
Dec 7 2004 By David Powell, Daily Post A POLICEMAN is training dogs to find bodies in North Wales mountain areas. Sergeant Mike Swindells, of Lancashire Police, will work with two spaniels and a terrier, plus their handlers, alongside Ogwen Valley Mountain Rescue Team. The three dogs are looked after by Penmaenmawr-based David Jones, a member of the Ogwen Valley team. Sgt Swindells, 48, specialises in training dogs to search for bodies. They can help track down human remains which have lain undiscovered for anything from a few hours to up to 20 years. The cases could range from missing climbers to murder victims. The Blackpool-based officer said: "It's a new venture. David approached me a while ago to train his three mountain rescue dogs. "We normally work in crime scenes, and training this type of dog is something I have never done before. "Hopefully the mountain rescue team will benefit. "Search and rescue dogs are not trained to indicate corpses. They only go for body scent," said the police officer. "If a person has been on a hillside for some time, the fresh body scent is replaced by the smell of cadaver, the smell of death, and those dogs can't find them. "My dogs are only trained to search for dead bodies." "Even the sad discovery of a body can help grieving relatives who feel certain their loved one has died." David Jones, who runs Graiglwyd Kennels in Penmaenmawr, said: "We are going to train dogs to find the bodies of climbers or missing people after a crime." Three dogs will be taken to makeshift "graves" in moor-land, forests and shale in North Wales. Hair, underwear and pigs organs - used to mimic human remains - will be placed in the graves as part of the dogs' training. http://icnorthwales.icnetwork.co.uk/news/regionalnews/tm_objectid=14952267&method=full&siteid=50142&headline=dogs-trained-to-sniff-out-dead-bodies-name_page.html

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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