
A Bridge Too Far PT 2
Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes
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The Death of a Suspect
In many ways, maybe that's what I'm doing when I drink my bourbon is I'm preserving myself from the inside out. Well, during a standard autopsy, the pathologists are taking samples of a wide variety of tissues in the body for histological analysis. Sometimes in homicides, there's going to be certain parts of the body that will be preserved in a sample jar. And they're using formalin, another chemical that basically ceases any type of bacterial activities. These cells haven't been disturbed due to the preservation processes, I guess is what I'm trying to say.
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