1. Case Studies
Chapter 12

2. Lori Ann Auker
1989
decomposing body found dressed in jacket, jeans, sneakers (6/12/89)
ruled a homicide from multiple stab wounds to back and chest
forensic entomologist estimated TOD days before found
used climate report, autopsy, description of scene --> insect development & decomp stage

3. 1 suspect - ex-husband, Robert Donald Auker
evidence - insects, cat and human hair on body and in Robert's car, video from ATM from May 24 (last day seen alive)
arrested, convicted, sentenced to death

4. Sylvia Hunt 1986, Greenwich, CT
decomposing body on I-95 wrapped in carpet (9/21/86)
ETD days
stabbed 15 times
larvae from blowflies on open areas (4,000+)
Forensic entomologist, William Krinsky, analyzed evidence from 9/21,22

5. climatological data from 9/1-23
maggot infestation on body
80 blowflies in pupa from carpet (9/22)
emerged as adults 9/25 -black blowflies
eggs deposited 9/15
so, body dumped 9/14 night
1 suspect - Yuri Hernandez - had told friend he planned to kill women

6. matched pattern of carpet with body to carpet in Hernandez's home
convicted of 1st degree murder