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Crime won’t stop because of COVID. So how should we protect crime scene investigators?
Published 2022
The Conversation, January 14
COVID may have curtailed travel, hospitality, education and entertainment, but crime scene investigation never stops...
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Published 2022
The Conversation, April 8
As Russian forces withdraw from parts of Ukraine, reports have emerged of thousands dead and mass graves holding unknown numbers of bodies...
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Flies, maggots and methamphetamine: how insects can reveal drugs and poisons at crime scenes.
Published 2022
The Conversation, March 1
The oldest book of zoology was published on clay tablets more than 3,600 years ago, and reported the names of 396 types of wild animals known at the time. Ten of them were different kinds of fly...
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How do you create a crime scene for television?
Published 2019
Voices Magazine, 01 August 2019
Dr Paola Magni is a forensic entomologist and scriptwriter for the television crime series RIS Delitti Imperfetti. She tells us how to create a realistic crime scene for television, and why fly maggots are sometimes better than caterpillars.
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The Role of Chromatography in Entomotoxicology
Published 2019
The Column, 15, 4, 2 - 5
The detection of drugs or other toxic substances can be crucial to forensic investigations. However, if the investigation involves a heavily decomposed, skeletonized, or missing corpse, that information can be difficult to obtain, and may require the skills of a unique branch of forensic toxicology-entomotoxicology. To explain the role of chromatography in this field, The Column spoke to Paola A. Magni from Murdoch University, in Perth, Australia.
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Insects time-stamp bodies for forensics
Published 2013
Australasian Science, May 9
Analysing insects within a waterlogged corpse might seem an odd way to gather clues but WA forensic entomologists have found it to be one of the best methods of accurately estimating a time of death.
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Published 2007
Oasis, 171
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Entomologia Forense: insetti sulla scena del crimine
Published 2006
Piemonte Parchi, XXI,, 9-160, 33 - 35