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Armando Alcaraz

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Science Vs
How a Nuclear Lab Helped Catch a Serial Killer

And when it breaks down into the metabolites, those metabolites can be found in the human body anyway.

Science Vs
How a Nuclear Lab Helped Catch a Serial Killer

So how could you go into a court of law and say, well, here we found these metabolites?

Science Vs
How a Nuclear Lab Helped Catch a Serial Killer

Well, the defense lawyers are going to go, well, and what does that mean?

Science Vs
How a Nuclear Lab Helped Catch a Serial Killer

They're normally found in a human body anyway.

Science Vs
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.

Science Vs
How a Nuclear Lab Helped Catch a Serial Killer

spike it, put the chemical in it, and then just allow it to putrefy.

Science Vs
How a Nuclear Lab Helped Catch a Serial Killer

And then you take it out and homogenize it.

Science Vs
How a Nuclear Lab Helped Catch a Serial Killer

You basically put it in a blender and make milkshake out of it.

Science Vs
How a Nuclear Lab Helped Catch a Serial Killer

Your face in this moment.

Science Vs
How a Nuclear Lab Helped Catch a Serial Killer

There's these two notorious chemicals, putrescine and cadaverine.

Science Vs
How a Nuclear Lab Helped Catch a Serial Killer

So just the names themselves kind of give you an indication of what it smells like.

Science Vs
How a Nuclear Lab Helped Catch a Serial Killer

Cadaverine?

Science Vs
How a Nuclear Lab Helped Catch a Serial Killer

Cadaverine and putrescine.

Science Vs
How a Nuclear Lab Helped Catch a Serial Killer

It's everything awful you could think of that's rotting.

Science Vs
How a Nuclear Lab Helped Catch a Serial Killer

That's what it smells like.

Science Vs
How a Nuclear Lab Helped Catch a Serial Killer

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.

Science Vs
How a Nuclear Lab Helped Catch a Serial Killer

And he would be blending these tissues up with the blender.

Science Vs
How a Nuclear Lab Helped Catch a Serial Killer

And even though we were doing all this in the chemical hoods, you could still smell that stuff.

Science Vs
How a Nuclear Lab Helped Catch a Serial Killer

And it would penetrate your clothes.

Science Vs
How a Nuclear Lab Helped Catch a Serial Killer

It would get into your clothes.