Forensics in the Media
University of Nebraska-lincoln
Forensics in the Media
FORS 401: Forensic Biochemistry
Anonymous
4/29/2014
The first show that I watched was an episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigators from Season 3. The episode was called Last Laugh. This episode was about a comedian that was murdered while giving his act. There was also a woman that died in her bathtub and the CSI thought it was an accident. Dougie Max, the comedian that was murdered, died will giving his act at The Comedy Hole. While analyzing the body they notice that his right fist was clinched shut and thought at first that he had had a heart attack. After the autopsy, Dr. Robbins, the chief medical examiner, told Gil Grissom that Dougie Max had a cause of death of myocardial necrosis which is what you would expect from a heart attack, however Mr. Max was very healthy. Tox screen came back with cocaine and later found Naratriptamine in his blood. In conclusion, they determined that Dougie Max was poisoned with Naratriptamine that was put on the water bottles that he had drunk.
The second case was a woman, Mrs. Stark that died in her bathtub but Nick and Sara had reexamined the case and determined her death was not accidental and was actually murder. Bruises had surfaced on her face and back after the embalming process. They had concluded that she had drowned because her husband had forced her head under the water and wouldn’t let her surface. However, I am going to focus specifically on the first case presented in this episode. One forensic science method that I recognized in this episode was extraction, however I believe the theme for this episode was toxicology. I am going to explain the science that is involved in this episode and compare and contrast them to real-life situations.
Toxicology screens were the main test that was ran in this episode. During one portion of the episode Grissom and Catherine had taken food and drinks from The Comedy Hole to analyze for the presence of
Forensics in the Media
FORS 401: Forensic Biochemistry
Anonymous
4/29/2014
The first show that I watched was an episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigators from Season 3. The episode was called Last Laugh. This episode was about a comedian that was murdered while giving his act. There was also a woman that died in her bathtub and the CSI thought it was an accident. Dougie Max, the comedian that was murdered, died will giving his act at The Comedy Hole. While analyzing the body they notice that his right fist was clinched shut and thought at first that he had had a heart attack. After the autopsy, Dr. Robbins, the chief medical examiner, told Gil Grissom that Dougie Max had a cause of death of myocardial necrosis which is what you would expect from a heart attack, however Mr. Max was very healthy. Tox screen came back with cocaine and later found Naratriptamine in his blood. In conclusion, they determined that Dougie Max was poisoned with Naratriptamine that was put on the water bottles that he had drunk.
The second case was a woman, Mrs. Stark that died in her bathtub but Nick and Sara had reexamined the case and determined her death was not accidental and was actually murder. Bruises had surfaced on her face and back after the embalming process. They had concluded that she had drowned because her husband had forced her head under the water and wouldn’t let her surface. However, I am going to focus specifically on the first case presented in this episode. One forensic science method that I recognized in this episode was extraction, however I believe the theme for this episode was toxicology. I am going to explain the science that is involved in this episode and compare and contrast them to real-life situations.
Toxicology screens were the main test that was ran in this episode. During one portion of the episode Grissom and Catherine had taken food and drinks from The Comedy Hole to analyze for the presence of