Summary of Erika Engelhaupt's Gory Details

By IRB Media

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Book Preview: #1 We all have a morbid curiosity about death. We fear the unknown, and death is the great unknown. We’ve devoted entire genres of art and literature to the subject, from horror movies to murder mysteries.

#2 The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore handles about 4,000 autopsies a year. The Forensic Medical Center was completed in 2010, and 16 examiners perform about 4,000 autopsies a year on cadavers from across the state.

#3 The autopsy process is a lot of work, with many details to attend to. When you watch people who do this work every day, it’s less shocking than it sounds.

#4 We all have a morbid curiosity about death, and it’s hard to stop. But we can learn more about what happens to our bodies after we die, which can be reassuring.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Mar 15, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669359586

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#1

We all have a morbid curiosity about death. We fear the unknown, and death is the great unknown. We’ve devoted entire genres of art and literature to the subject, from horror movies to murder mysteries.

#2

The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore handles about 4,000 autopsies a year. The Forensic Medical Center was completed in 2010, and 16 examiners perform about 4,000 autopsies a year on cadavers from across the state.

#3

The autopsy process is a lot of work, with many details to attend to. When you watch people who do this work every day, it’s less shocking than it sounds.

#4

We all have a morbid curiosity about death, and it’s hard to stop. But we can learn more about what happens to our bodies after we die, which can be reassuring.

#5

The Judson family was part of a dollhouse-size crime scene built by Frances Glessner Lee, heir to International Harvester’s tractor and farm equipment fortune. She built 20 of these eerily accurate dioramas in the 1940s and ’50s, and they’re still used as teaching tools for detectives.

#6

The Nutshell models are still standing today, a testament to Lee’s contributions to forensic science. They are a physical reminder of her important contribution to American forensic science.

#7

I teamed up with psychologists Anthony Benicewicz and Anthony Oludoyi, a master’s degree student in forensic medicine, to solve the case. We spent hours examining the scene, reconstructing possible scenarios, and searching for clues.

#8

The Nutshells are not open to the public, but