National Geographic - Secrets of the body farm.

[pathfinder73]

National Geographic - Secrets of the body farm


Body Farm from 8:15 dogs detecting bodies under concrete, ground penetrating radar systems - GPRS, time since death etc.

Warning - this may be too graphic for some viewers!

[Eleanor]

National Geographic - Secrets of the body farm


Body Farm from 8:15 dogs detecting bodies under concrete, ground penetrating radar systems - GPRS, time since death etc.

Warning - this may be too graphic for some viewers!

Thanks for the video.  Yuck.  Bloomin Hell, what I watch in the interests of this Forum.

However, it is all about corpses in situ, and nothing about bodies that have been removed.

Any dog can find a cadaver if there is one to be found.

The video is worth watching if you really want to know how and why bodies decompose.

[pathfinder73]

Thanks for the video.  Yuck.  Bloomin Hell, what I watch in the interests of this Forum.

However, it is all about corpses in situ, and nothing about bodies that have been removed.

Any dog can find a cadaver if there is one to be found.

The video is worth watching if you really want to know how and why bodies decompose.

That is from 2002 so before Eddie and Keela went there. Martin Grime is top dog in that field.

"The specialist training techniques - which are highly confidential - were developed by Eddie's handler Martin Grime, along with the UK's National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) and America's Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)." 26 February 2008

[Eleanor]

That is from 2002 so before Eddie and Keela went there. Martin Grime is top dog in that field.

"The specialist training techniques - which are highly confidential - were developed by Eddie's handler Martin Grime, along with the UK's National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) and America's Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)." 26 February 2008

This is not true.  Martin Grime was a very ordinary dog handler who added an E to a very ordinary search and rescue dog.
Martin Grime was not instrumental in developing American techniques.

[Brietta]

This is not true.  Martin Grime was a very ordinary dog handler who added an E to a very ordinary search and rescue dog.
Martin Grime was not instrumental in developing American techniques.

According to Wikipedia the first body farm facility was initiated by the University of Tennessee Anthropological Research Facility in 1981.

Some cadaver dogs in America are trained Exclusively using human remains.

[misty]

National Geographic - Secrets of the body farm


Body Farm from 8:15 dogs detecting bodies under concrete, ground penetrating radar systems - GPRS, time since death etc.

Warning - this may be too graphic for some viewers!

Thanks for the video, Pathfinder, I found it interesting. The science does appear to be rather hit and miss at times and I'm not sure I'd be happy with accepting a specific date of death based on the principles shown - although I do appreciate things have moved on since filming.
The featured dogs were trained to bark AND indicate the exact spot they scented the cadaver. Eddie didn't appear to have been trained to the same precise standard.

[John]

It's a pity in this day and age that the UK hasn't got its own body farm requiring our dog handlers to cross the Atlantic with their dogs in order to get the best training.