anybody see this on channel 5 last night?? i think that's what it was called but NOT the CSI drama series

a documentary following forensic officers to death scenes, whether that be a murder , suicide or accident scene

it was truly mordid but compulsive viewing
some of the things these people see are truly hideous

one that spring to mind is the guy who died in his rat infested trashed home and had been dead for a few weeks. By the time the investigator had got there his body was rubbery and had expanded (due to body gas) and he was about to explode!

or the victims of car accidents where the body was unrecognisable and the suicide scenes where they had shot themselves in the head and the investigator had to try to hold what was left of their face together in order to take a picture for idenitifcation purposes

just to add that it is set in america
my reaction was should they really be showing these truly horrific scenes just to cater for morbid fascination because i guess that's what it boils down to - these people have(d) families

i found the bit where the guy needed a finger print rather sick!

the guy had been dead for about 2 weeks he had jumped in to the river. anyway the forensic had to get a finger print so he cut off the dead guys finger pulled off the skin, put it on his finger then finger pinted it.

he had ti do it with anouther person to but he chopped off the whole hand, and whilst printing the ingerprint the finger snapped offf the hand

urrrrrgggggghhhhh made me shiver