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FORENSICS: Semen, drunk flies, and crime scenes
Season 2 · Episode 92

FORENSICS: Semen, drunk flies, and crime scenes

Crime Insiders · LiSTNR

May 21, 202435m 40sExplicit

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Show Notes

Semen is the crack cocaine of the fly world, and while maggots love a corpse, flies feast on live human flesh and fluids. So, could a fly frame you for murder? And how do police differentiate fly 'artifacts' from human biological material at a crime scene?

These are all things forensic biologist, Dr Annalisa Durdle has studied. Join host Kathryn Fox as Annalisa redefines what it means to be a 'fly on the wall'. 

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