Question

[icepixie]

Crime show fic-writers, perhaps you can answer this: Is there a resource out there about the various suspicious ways people can die and what the signs are/how they can be tested for? Say, for example, you're writing something where it looks like a victim has died in an obvious manner (gunshot, knifing, etc.), but the ME thinks something more subtle was the real cause of death, and must run a test of some sort to determine whether the hypothesis is correct. Where might one come up with the "something more subtle" and the name of the test? Or at least a general type of test that might be run? (The real cause of death would preferably be something it's easy to miss signs for.)

Comments

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

*giggles*

I've got nothing helpful. I'm out of my depth when it comes to babble that's not related to Star Trek.

[icepixie]

Writing for a crime show is making my Firefox history look extremely suspicious. *g*

After staring blankly at some Google results and little_details posts, I've decided to make up a poisonous mushroom the ME in question Megan can test for. From some discussion I've seen of the show, they haven't exactly been stellar at the technobabble themselves, so it should fit right in. ;)