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From: loiver
Date: 12/15/2006
Time: 1:47:16 PM
Remote Name: 192.168.9.7
From: Todd Marrero
Date: 10/27/2005
Time: 2:40:23 PM
Remote Name: 192.168.7.9
fyi... I worked for Don Simpson, not Pellicano, so being that I worked at his residence, of course I'm gonna find any dead bodies on the premises... bonehead
From: Jasper
Date: 9/1/03
Time: 6:39:42 PM
Remote Name: 68.73.58.235
Charlie, you said in a post on last month’s board that the people who got sick from bloody murder scenes reported that the sight of the bodies made them ill. I bet they were wrong. When you enter a scene like that all of your senses that can be involved ARE involved. You see the bodies but you “feel” the odor, just as you did when you “saw” your first dead dog. It goes straight to your brain and straight to your stomach.
Our sense of smell is the most primitive and in many ways the most closely linked to our most primitive emotions. When we smell gas in our bedrooms we feel alarmed. When food or drink smells good it tastes better and adds to our pleasure of consuming it. We avoid people with BO in most settings but if we are engaged in a pleasurable activity that produces it, we do not find it the least bit offensive. We can become so comfortable with it that we no longer notice it.
Soldiers who have been in the field for a long time without being able to wash themselves don’t smell bad to each other. Heavy smokers do not notice the smell of smoke in their clothes and hair. Women often use too much perfume because they have gotten so used to the fragrance that they have to splash a lot of it on to detect a subtle hint that other people (especially men) find overpowering.
Cops like Vannatter and Lange who have viewed hundreds of bloody bodies up close, build up a tolerance to the odor but they can’t dismiss it altogether. They’re not like slaughterhouse workers who have their noses in it all day five days a week. Also, they come to the scene with some idea of what they will find, so they have a chance to prepare themselves. My guess is that the odor, growing stronger as they approach, is part of their psychological preparation for what they will see.
Fuhrman is a special case. In his psychiatric interviews he revealed a particular fascination with blood. He did the same thing in his taped conversations with Laura Hart. This is not a man who learned to tolerate the sight AND the smell of blood. This man reveled in it. --Jasper