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Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :

Formerly titled: Goodbye to CSI

Hard to have a whodunnit when DNA reveals the face of the perpetrator.

[ July 03, 2009, 03:41 AM: Message edited by: aspectre ]

Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :

quote:
Originally posted by aspectre:
Hard to have a whodunnit when DNA reveals the face of the perpetrator.

I suppose but the presence of DNA is not the nail in the coffin as far as "whodunnit" is concerned.

Posted by brojack17 (Member # 9189) on :

I thought this was going to be a thread about CSI (the TV show) and its decline since Grissom left.

Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :

Forensic Linguistics.

Posted by AvidReader (Member # 6007) on :

He's an FBI agent working the hardest cases. She's an overworked copy-editor trying to make ends meet. Together, they fight crime!

Not sure how well it'll translate to the inevitable tv show, but it's a cool way to catch people.

Posted by Darth_Mauve (Member # 4709) on :

"I would have gotten away with it, if it wasn't for that Forensic Linguist."

"Yeah," said the happy innocent Delilah. "You thought you were cunning, but he's a cunning forensic linguist too."