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A year ago: local murder on the Forensic Files
Lauren Bradley spent the night. We don't see her as often since her mother sold their house and they moved to Bellevue. They live upstairs from the Beadery, her mother's new business. The girls took off to the Gold Star Chili parlor and got coneys for supper. Later they walked up to the corner store to get candy, and they also walked around delivering Girl Scout cookies. They had a busy night walking around! We are truly fortunate that we live in a neighborhood where I feel comfortable letting them go walking around at night, as long as they are in groups (although the last time they walked up to get candy I had them take the greyhounds. WE know they are wusses--but most people just see big dogs. )
Tim also called Mandy from EKU, and Perry stopped over to hang around and debate Catholicism with me. (Perry is very devout, pre-Vatican 2). I am a lapsed Catholic.
At midnight--when they were supposed to be in bed--they came downstairs, curled up in the television room and watched an episode of The Forensic Files. It was about a local case--a woman was murdered in Hamilton, Ohio. The killer defleshed her skull, dismembered her body, and pulled out the teeth...(and got sentenced to a whole twelve to twenty five years...and this was the mother of his child!) What makes it an especially noteworthy TV show in terms of homeschooling is the interviews with the Forensic Anthropologist on the show. Her name was Dr. Murray, and she was at Mt. St. Joeseph's....I am hoping to contact her and see if she would do something for the Homeschooler's Forensic club. It would be a really interesting experience for Mandy to meet this anthropologist she saw on television!
(I have a BA in Applied Anthropology myself, so I am always happy to see Anthropology getting the respect I feel it deserves. ) I am excited that NKU is going to be offering a degree in Forensics!
"Dr. Murray, 40, of Bridgetown, a 1976 graduate of Seton High School with degrees from the University of Cincinnati and the College of Mount St. Joseph, says she never set out to be a forensic anthropologist.Her varied interests and curiosity gradually led her to it. "
http://www.clinicalanatomy.com/murray1.htm
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