Mary Roach
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Okay, I love this question because there is a fact that I learned not that long ago that isn't in any of my books.
And here is the fact.
Okay.
Okay.
When you have a murder victim and you're trying to determine...
the time of death, and you're looking at the insects, right?
Like how far has the body degraded?
And you're looking at the insect life and the maggots, etc.
If the person had been on cocaine, you have to adjust your timeline because the insects feed really fast.
No.
That's what I was told.
This is really good.
This is really good.
Isn't it really good?
Let's keep eating.
Isn't that amazing?
But anyway.
I don't even remember where I learned that or who told me, but it was a science person.
Of course.
It was an ologist.