Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Study of Human death through the life of insects

Bugs. They crawl, run, gross us out, annoy us and even creep us out. However, could you ever imagine bugs helping solve the reason of a person’s death? Joe Keiper is a forensic entomologist that studies bugs that have been eating human corpses. Keiper says that "Minutes after someone dies, nature begins its cycle of life by sending flies." Keiper has solved 32 cases of deaths since 2001 because of the bugs he studies. He states that bugs help solve police cases of mysterious deaths. Can you imagine that? I think that this is one of those phenomenon’s that can't really be explained. He even is working on a case right now where there were ten bodies found in a duplex. Police men call him the bug man. I find this article every interesting because I really am not a fan of bugs and to see that they are actually a way of helping solve murder mysteries is really a fantastic thing. Keiper said that bugs tell the story of what happened with the death and that you just have to figure out how to read what they are telling you. To be one of twenty people that do the sort of thing that Keiper does is something to be proud of.

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