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North Las Vegas Officer Studies at CSI Body Farm PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Tuesday, 02 August 2005
Atle Erlingsson, Reporter
July 28, 2005

A North Las Vegas police officer recently made Nevada history. She's the first crime scene investigator from the Silver State to be accepted in the most prestigious forensics academy in the country. She returned just days ago and is speaking about her experience for the first time. There are only 48 investigators accepted into the program each year. It's a 10-week academy based in Tennessee which teaches crime scene investigators the newest techniques in solving crimes.

This is far more than just classroom work. It's real hands-on training. "There are bodies that are just laying on the ground. There's bodies that are in a car. There's bodies that are in a tree. There's bodies underwater. There's bodies in a building," said Officer Marion Brady, North Las Vegas Police. There are more than 100 bodies are scattered across two acres of Tennessee land.

"The smell was overwhelming at times," Brady said. She was one of a select few officers from across the country who studied at the National Forensics Academy.

"There's a lot of advanced techniques that I have not even heard of." At the body farm at the University of Tennessee, they studied the decomposition of real human corpses. But terrorism training was also a key component. Investigating suicide bombings, car bombings and simulated plane crashes. A fuselage was dropped from 150 feet in the air exploding on impact.

When you think of a car bomb. I thought, okay, a car bomb. It's going to throw debris 360 degrees all around the car and all. When actually most of the debris is only in a 20 degree angle from the car."

Officer Brady learned new techniques, new skills and new expertise which will be applied on the streets of North Las Vegas.

There is a lengthy waiting list to be part of the academy. It is not just for investigators. People can sign up to donate their corpses to the farm. So far there is a list with 500 names.

http://www.klas-tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3652158&nav=168XcgPk
 
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taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

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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

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