FORKNI-L
Digest - 9 Dec 2006 to 10 Dec 2006 (#2006-75)
Sun, 10 Dec 2006
There are 3 messages totalling 117 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. Reformation/Criminal rehabilitation (2)
2. Today's Birthday: December 10
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Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 07:30:20 -0500
From: gwatson2 <gwatson2@r.......>
Subject: Reformation/Criminal rehabilitation
Kristen wrote:
> Something I have been thinking about FK on and off the
> last few months is the fact that Nick was in essence a
> serial killer
In essence? Two of the episodes explicitly compared the compulsions driving
Nick to those that drive serial killers: "Crazy Love" and "Trophy Girl".
Which means that *he* saw a parallel, since the historical flashbacks in
those episodes were, after all, his own memories sparked by the crime he was
trying to solve.
> think of the implications with things like, oh, states that
> still have the Death Penalty.
And consider those implications in connection with modern advances in
criminological investigation. We all know that vampires take care not to
leave evidence of their existence behind at the crime scene. But that
assumes that they know what constitutes recognisable evidence.
If DNA from an old crime scene--maybe some twenty years ago--is
processed today, it could match up with another case from another
place/date. Maybe a radically different date, suggesting remarkable
longevity. Or maybe something current--perhaps in a non-crime situation
where a vampire's DNA has been collected for other reasons, or without their
knowledge. The same goes for fingerprints on an old object matching with
ones taken more recently in an apparently innocuous situation, e.g. for an
ID card.
Greer
gwatson2@r.......
http://ca.geocities.com/gwatson2@rogers.com/index.html
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Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 09:17:53 -0600
From: eowyn23@j.......
Subject: Today's Birthday: December 10
Hi Y'all!
Today is Festival For The Souls Of Dead Whales and the birthday of:
Judy Lieberman. JudithL21@a.......
You may send birthday greetings to Judy at the above email address.
Please NOT to the list!
Others who share this birthday:
Kenneth Branagh, Stage Actor
Dan Blocker, TV Actor
Emily Dickinson, Poet
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, Educator
Dorothy Lamour, Movie Actress
Significant events on this date:
1817, Mississippi was admitted to the union as the 20th state.
1901, The king of Sweden distributed the first Nobel Prizes.
1946, Toys For Tots Campaign organized.
1998, Six astronauts jubilantly swung open the doors to the new
international space station.
I hope you have a very Happy Birthday, Judy!
If you would like to be added to the birthday announcements, please send
your name, birthdate (no year needed) and email address to me,
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Terri
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Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 13:07:56 -0500
From: Lisa McDavid <mclisa@m.......>
Subject: Re: Reformation/Criminal rehabilitation
Greer wrote, commenting on a note from Kristen:
>> think of the implications with things like, oh, states that
>> still have the Death Penalty.
Well, of course they'd have to catch and hold Nick or another vampire first,
but what would really be interesting as the basis for a story would be, what if
Nick discovers one day while watching the news, that a man is about to be
executed for a murder which he knows one of the vampires committed? I'm presuming not
someone Nick killed himself, but what if there was a reason why Nick did do it
... as LC said as the Night Crawler, "discuss."
Sure, Nick could simply break the accused out of jail, but he'd want to prove
him innocent so he doesn't spend the rest of his life on the run,wouldn't he?
> If DNA from an old crime scene--maybe some twenty years ago--is
>processed today, it could match up with another case from another
>place/date. Maybe a radically different date, suggesting remarkable
>longevity.
Cold case type of investigation. I _like_ that. To make matters worse, I
suspect a DNA match would be empirical evidence and therefore not a simple case of
calling in the Enforcers.
>Or maybe something current--perhaps in a non-crime situation
>where a vampire's DNA has been collected for other reasons, or without their
>knowledge. The same goes for fingerprints on an old object matching with
>ones taken more recently in an apparently innocuous situation
Especially with all the anti-terrorist precautions these days for inhternatinal
flights. Also, police officers' prints have to be on file for purpose of
elimination. That should put Nick's in whatever online system his force is linked
into. I can see it now. Schanke has Jenny at the office one day. She watches him
use the fingerprint database. Then, while he's distracted, she uses a link he
left logged onto the check for Nick's prints. She had earlier talked him into
letting her fingerprint him. So now she scans Nick's prints into the system, only
they return more than Nick as a match ...
McLisa, who doesn't have time to write now and makes a present of these ideas
to anyone who does
mclisa@m.......
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