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Cyanide Poisoning - CrimeSpace. Two Chicago Area Ex-Cops Charged With Extortion, Plotting To Dismember Businessman. Sketch credit: Lothar Speer (via WLS-TV screen grab) Two former police officers were charged in court Friday with attempting to kidnap a businessman, shake him down for cash, then kill him and dismember his body.

Two Chicago Area Ex-Cops Charged With Extortion, Plotting To Dismember Businessman

Former Willow Springs police officer Gary Engel and disgraced former Chicago cop Steven Mandell were arrested Thursday as they were planning to carry out their plan. Former Death Row cop set up killing chamber in latest plot: feds. BY KIM JANSSEN Federal Courts Reporter October 26, 2012 11:16AM Steven Mandell, formerly known as “Steven Manning,” of Buffalo Grove, was charged with attempted extortion and conspiracy to commit extortion in a criminal complaint filed Friday. | Sun-Times Media file photo storyidforme: 39076620 tmspicid: 14401372 fileheaderid: 6585073 Updated: November 28, 2012 6:08AM He’s previously been known as Steve Manning and Etienne Duvalier.

Former Death Row cop set up killing chamber in latest plot: feds

100 Irish surnames explained,Irish Genealogy,Irish coats of arms,How to start the search for your Irish roots,family crests,genealogy,Irish roots,heritage,Ireland,ancestry,decendants. It should be noted that the Scottish Gaels were actually descendants of Gaelic emigrants to Scotland.

100 Irish surnames explained,Irish Genealogy,Irish coats of arms,How to start the search for your Irish roots,family crests,genealogy,Irish roots,heritage,Ireland,ancestry,decendants

The word 'Scotus' is Latin for 'Irishman'. Scottish settlers who moved to Ireland (and especially Ulster) may already have been of Gaelic Irish descent. Math Forum - Ask Dr. Math. Search. Government gene sleuths stop superbug that killed 6. National Institutes of HealthAP.

Government gene sleuths stop superbug that killed 6

Google Image Result for. Morgue Overhaul. Saying she was "disturbed and discouraged and disappointed," Cook County board president Toni Preckwinkle promised to "overhaul" the medical examiner's office -- and fire some workers -- because of crowded conditions in the morgue.

Morgue Overhaul

" Google Image Result for. Google Image Result for. ‘Sacrilegious’ — bodies piling up at Cook County morgue. BY LISA DONOVAN AND LAUREN FITZPATRICK Staff Reporters January 14, 2012 2:42AM Updated: February 15, 2012 8:09AM.

‘Sacrilegious’ — bodies piling up at Cook County morgue

Police Seize More Than A Ton Of Pot In South Side Bust. Get Breaking News First Receive News, Politics, and Entertainment Headlines Each Morning.

Police Seize More Than A Ton Of Pot In South Side Bust

Sign Up CHICAGO (STMW) - Police have arrested four people and seized more than 2,100 pounds of marijuana in a drug bust in the South Side Englewood neighborhood. Police were watching a house in the 5900 block of South Lowe Street on Tuesday when they saw someone place a “visibly large” amount of marijuana and crack cocaine into a vehicle and drive away, according to police News Affairs. Community Areas - Englewood - Tracking homicides in Chicago - Tracking homicides in Chicago. Mouse over a marker to see the victim's name, click for details. Showing 118 homicides in Englewood since Jan. 1, 2007. {*style:<b>Name, age + Story </b>*} {*style:<b>Date + Time </b>*} {*style:<b>Cause + Locale </b>*} Forensic Science of Bloodstain Pattern Analysis.

Showtime's quirky hit drama Dexter profiles a serial killer who works as a bloodstain pattern analyst for the Miami-Dade Police Department.

Forensic Science of Bloodstain Pattern Analysis

The character is fictional, but the forensic analysis is real. First, the presumptive bloodstain must be analyzed to ensure it is human. Then the analysis of the blood spatter patterns begins. Blood Spatter Analysis is a Forensic Science. Read A Good Bloodstain Lately? Since not all blood deposited at crime scenes is spatter, investigators now call this extremely valuable evidence, “bloodstain.”

Read A Good Bloodstain Lately?

Detectives can learn a lot from studying bloodstain patterns, such as what type weapon was used to deliver the fatal blow, the manner in which the victim was killed, where the assault took place, and where the attacker stood when he committed the act. They learn these things by studying the shapes of the blood drops and droplets, the location of the blood evidence, the patterns made by the spatter and stain—generally, what happened to the blood when it was released from the victim. A good bloodstain training class uses actual human blood, because nothing else accurately mimics the real stuff. Although, a decent substitute is a mixture of Karo syrup and red food coloring. During training classes students are exposed to nearly every type real-life scenario imaginable, but the first order of business is to learn the basics—characteristics of a blood drop. Alarm as Dutch lab creates highly contagious killer flu - Science - News.

The discovery has prompted fears within the US Government that the knowledge will fall into the hands of terrorists wanting to use it as a bio-weapon of mass destruction.

Alarm as Dutch lab creates highly contagious killer flu - Science - News

Some scientists are questioning whether the research should ever have been undertaken in a university laboratory, instead of at a military facility. The US Government is now taking advice on whether the information is too dangerous to be published. To see the graphic: The last outbreak - A deadly virus even before the latest twist. Anatomy of an outbreak: Stealthy microbe kills six patients. August 24, 2012 A deadly superbug had doctors at the nation's leading research hospital baffled – and scared. By LAURAN NEERGAARD The Associated Press WASHINGTON - Over six frightening months, a deadly germ untreatable by most antibiotics spread in the nation's leading research hospital. Pretty soon, a patient a week was catching the bug. Blood Stains.