Evil Science

[kybearfuzz]

One of my favorite shows to watch is on the Oxygen network called Snapped. In the true crime/forensic science vein of shows, it stands apart in that all of the killers are women. While most true crime shows depict male killers and their male and/or female victims, this show spotlights that the female can be the deadlier of the species.

Last night's episode dealt with an overbearing and controlling female biochemist/business owner who killed her hubby when he left her and attempted a divorce. She and her young (hot) male accomplice basically tased him, knocked him out with chloroform, put him head-first in a 55-gallon barrel, and poured hydrochloric acid on him to dissolve the body.

This irked me in many ways, but worse so in that the lady was a chemist, which was my chosen profession for several years. I always think of science as being used to solve a crime, but to see someone use it to dispose of evidence and off someone was especially disturbing. In theory, if she had handled it better, she might have actually gotten rid of the body by completely dissolving it away. I've digested organic products in acid solutions before, whole minature fish like sardines for example, and the digestive process can literally leave nothing more than a liquid soup that could never be identified as a once living thing.

I was channeling my inner Abby Sciuto, who I am sure would be aghast at this misuse of scientific expertise. The good news is that she and her accomplice were caught and sentenced to life in jail without parole. I'm sure Abby would have done a happy dance at outcome, Caf-Pow in hand.

Comments

[clintswan.livejournal.com]

heheheh

how'd she get caught?

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

Well, it was mostly timing. The friends of her husband had filed a missing persons report with the police. When the police questioned her, she decided to move the drum and had her employees rent the U-Haul and other suspicious things that made them go to the police too. Basically, she was such a b*tch to everyone that there were few people who didn't go to the police about her. Even her own daughter testified during her sentencing that she hopes she never gets out.