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Armando Alcaraz

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Serial Killers
Holiday Break: How a Nuclear Lab Helped Catch a Serial Killer

And I was a bit skeptical. I thought it was still going to be enough contamination and at such low levels that we weren't going to be able to see it. And we would then have to sort of pull that needle, you know, out of a haystack.

Serial Killers
Holiday Break: How a Nuclear Lab Helped Catch a Serial Killer

And I was a bit skeptical. I thought it was still going to be enough contamination and at such low levels that we weren't going to be able to see it. And we would then have to sort of pull that needle, you know, out of a haystack.

Serial Killers
Holiday Break: How a Nuclear Lab Helped Catch a Serial Killer

Yeah, at that point, you don't know whether it was actually real urine or whether water seepage had gotten into that coffin and there was moisture in it. And that's what you're analyzing.

Serial Killers
Holiday Break: How a Nuclear Lab Helped Catch a Serial Killer

Yeah, at that point, you don't know whether it was actually real urine or whether water seepage had gotten into that coffin and there was moisture in it. And that's what you're analyzing.

Serial Killers
Holiday Break: How a Nuclear Lab Helped Catch a Serial Killer

And the reason is it breaks down real fast. And when it breaks down into the metabolites, those metabolites can be found in the human body anyway. So how could you go into a court of law and say, well, here we found these metabolites? Well, the defense lawyers are going to go, well, and what does that mean? They're normally found in a human body anyway.

Serial Killers
Holiday Break: How a Nuclear Lab Helped Catch a Serial Killer

And the reason is it breaks down real fast. And when it breaks down into the metabolites, those metabolites can be found in the human body anyway. So how could you go into a court of law and say, well, here we found these metabolites? Well, the defense lawyers are going to go, well, and what does that mean? They're normally found in a human body anyway.

Serial Killers
Holiday Break: How a Nuclear Lab Helped Catch a Serial Killer

But with Pavalon, there's no reason why a person should have that drug in their system unless they had a procedure or somebody injected them with it.

Serial Killers
Holiday Break: How a Nuclear Lab Helped Catch a Serial Killer

But with Pavalon, there's no reason why a person should have that drug in their system unless they had a procedure or somebody injected them with it.

Serial Killers
Holiday Break: How a Nuclear Lab Helped Catch a Serial Killer

spike it, put the chemical in it, and then just allow it to putrefy. And then you take it out and homogenize it. You basically put it in a blender and make milkshake out of it. Your face in this moment.

Serial Killers
Holiday Break: How a Nuclear Lab Helped Catch a Serial Killer

spike it, put the chemical in it, and then just allow it to putrefy. And then you take it out and homogenize it. You basically put it in a blender and make milkshake out of it. Your face in this moment.

Serial Killers
Holiday Break: How a Nuclear Lab Helped Catch a Serial Killer

There's these two notorious chemicals, putrescine and cadaverine. So just the names themselves kind of give you an indication of what it smells like. Cadaverine?

Serial Killers
Holiday Break: How a Nuclear Lab Helped Catch a Serial Killer

There's these two notorious chemicals, putrescine and cadaverine. So just the names themselves kind of give you an indication of what it smells like. Cadaverine?

Serial Killers
Holiday Break: How a Nuclear Lab Helped Catch a Serial Killer

Cadaverine and putrescine.

Serial Killers
Holiday Break: How a Nuclear Lab Helped Catch a Serial Killer

Cadaverine and putrescine.

Serial Killers
Holiday Break: How a Nuclear Lab Helped Catch a Serial Killer

It's everything awful you could think of that's rotting. That's what it smells like. And so I have to tell you this story because I spoke to Brian and we would be working late at night, you know, trying to get these samples through. And he would be blending these tissues up with the blender. And even though we were doing all this in the chemical hoods, you could still smell that stuff.

Serial Killers
Holiday Break: How a Nuclear Lab Helped Catch a Serial Killer

It's everything awful you could think of that's rotting. That's what it smells like. And so I have to tell you this story because I spoke to Brian and we would be working late at night, you know, trying to get these samples through. And he would be blending these tissues up with the blender. And even though we were doing all this in the chemical hoods, you could still smell that stuff.

Serial Killers
Holiday Break: How a Nuclear Lab Helped Catch a Serial Killer

And it would penetrate your clothes. It would get into your clothes. And so it would already be maybe 930 at night. It was late, you know, and he said, I'm going to go and I'd leave, too. And he'd go to the grocery store to go buy some stuff to eat.

Serial Killers
Holiday Break: How a Nuclear Lab Helped Catch a Serial Killer

And it would penetrate your clothes. It would get into your clothes. And so it would already be maybe 930 at night. It was late, you know, and he said, I'm going to go and I'd leave, too. And he'd go to the grocery store to go buy some stuff to eat.

Serial Killers
Holiday Break: How a Nuclear Lab Helped Catch a Serial Killer

And so he would be standing in line and people would start to just move away from him because he had sort of was, you know, that smell of death was just in his clothes and in his hair and everything.

Serial Killers
Holiday Break: How a Nuclear Lab Helped Catch a Serial Killer

And so he would be standing in line and people would start to just move away from him because he had sort of was, you know, that smell of death was just in his clothes and in his hair and everything.

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