Smell of Death

In this Investigator's opinion, TV shows do no justice to what the real world out there is like for a Police Detective or a Private Detective. There are sights, sounds, smells tastes that defy description even though you try to put them in words.

Endless TV shows present one hour of a condensed murder, investigation: overnight or instantaneous blood, hair, fiber tests conducted by quirky, hothigh tech geeks in the labs; a crew of wise, good-looking Hollywood-esque investigators in the field who bring it together in an hour; all amid chatty social banter filled with sexual innuendo or an undercurrent of their own personal life mysteries. And always while they work, there's music in the background pulsing away as they do their mojo.
One hour later and "POOF!", murder, crime solved. As the music reaches its final beats, the bad guy does the perp walk and all is well in the world again.

Sometimes, I watch CSI, or NCIS, or Law & Order and I actually get P.O.'ed. If only solving a crime or resolving a case were that easy.

Law enforcement files and those of PI's are filled with cold cases we don't give up on or forget. One of my associates, a retired homicide detective, has a blog and wrote a post a day or so ago that talks of the smell... the experiences of a death investigation.... in a way only reading it for yourself can do justice to.

So while I head off on my day's rounds, just click on the title of this post and it will take you to Steve Spignola's most recent blog post. He's a retired homicide detective and I've posted a link to his post here before, he just started blogging and his blog "slueth with the proof" gets better every day.