| From: | Michael Broadwater <neon@*******.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Re: Bounty |
| Date: | Fri, 17 Jul 1998 00:39:25 -0500 |
>I still think faking the death is a possibility. Things at the morgue
>would not be that complicated. Unless it is specifically mentioned in the
>source books why could it not be an automated system, sort of like the bank
>night deposit slots. Even if it isn't automated, Methos has a contact at
>the morgue. Getting a body out of the morgue should therefore be no problem.
>
>Second, no autopsy would be done if the cause of death was rather obvious,
Not true. Autoposies are always done. More as a matter of record than
investigative work.
>like say, the top of their head blown off, or a great big basketball size
>hole where the person's heart and lungs should be. Coincidently, that is
>how Jett would die. Or even better, she would be blown up in a car
>bomb/gas main exp, whatever, so that her body is so badly mangled she could
>only be identified with dental records.. That has the advantage of only
>requiring that the substitute body be only approximately the same size and
>build. All other distinguishing marks would be lost.
>
>No, I think this idea is still totally viable. the only place where it
>would fail is if Jett has and cyberware that everyone else knows about that
>would still be recognizable after the body is blown up. Slim chance of
>that, I think. Jett would have to answer to be sure.
>
>I really think this would work. realistically.
Not really. You can take a dead body and shot it in the head, or rip out
it's lungs, and the police are going to go "Wow, for a gun shot victim,
there sure isn't a lot of blood lose." I know enough forensic pathology to
figure out that the body was dead long before being shot.
What you need to do is take a person who's similiar to Jett, take them
somewhere, shoot them, then burn the building and the body and leave some
evidence that it was Jett. Faked DNA or dental records, for example.
However, you're presuming that the people who want to kill Jett have enough
info on her to get her dental or DNA records but not enough to know what
kind of cyber she has. It's a fine line.
Mike Broadwater
http://www.olemiss.edu/~neon/
"Unarmed fighting is what I do between clips."
-- Sifu George Vance
