Status Updates From Ultimate CSI: Crime Scene I...

"Scent Pad...used with police dogs, this is a sterile gauze filled with the scent of a person or object that is being searched for" (138). FILLED WITH THE SCENT

"Rubber Gelatin Lifters...an elastic sheet of rubber used to lift fingerprints, footprints, or shoe prints from smooth, hard surfaces" (138). As 'twere.

Actually pretty impressed with this polygraph definition for noting that it "measures changes in the human body to detect stress that may indicate a person is lying" (138) rather than just saying it can tell if you're lying or not. Well done, CSI book glossary!

"Ligature...a device used to bind or tie, commonly referred to as an instrument of strangulation" (137). Even if it's not used to strangle? I am (genuinely) confused

"Bindle...a sterile, folded paper or envelop eluded to transport evidence" (136) OR HOBO GEAR

"The body's genital rearrangements point to a male-to-female sex change operation gone wrong. Sexual reassignment procedures should have comprehensive medical approval and legal permission, but here this was circumvented by backstreet 'surgery'" (101). Oh hello there 2006. But even then...why the hell would you need legal permission to get surgery if you're a grown ass adult?

"Strikingly attractive with a socially awkward personality, Mia isn't always comfortable in handling advances from her male co-workers" (95). NOR SHOULD SHE HAVE TO BE. Man, what a difference 13 years between this book's publication and now makes

"The others on the CSI team know crime scenes with bodies in them. Dr. Robbins knows the crime scenes inside bodies" (81). Despite the fact that this book (and show) predated Belinda Blinked, still can't help but think of that Dr. Robbins. Thanks a lot, Rocky Flintstone.

"The precise species may be identified from body color and wing pattern, but some types of flies are distinguished mainly by the intricacies of their genitalia" (31). Intricacies is a word choice

"Fluids from putrefied eyeballs attract certain kinds of fleshworms" (30). Fleshworms! That is a great and descriptive and uncomfortably evocative name

"But various other bugs and creepy-crawlers do not discriminate as they squirm and munch into a body" (30). Munch munch

"The voice recorder stores the CSI's comments as well as what witnesses say and relevant scene noises, such as church bells or a wind-banged gate" (12). Wind-banged.

"Latex gloves protect the evidence and general scene against contamination. They also protect the CSIs against diseases when handling bodies and their fluids" (12). Our bodies, our fluids, ourselves