Late at night in a dark room, a man in a grey sweatshirt walks down the stairs. He holds an object in his hand. Light glints off of it. The item has been made visible—he has a knife. The blade drips a crimson liquid onto the cold, hard, cement floor. He walks toward a figure. Turning on an overhead light, he reveals the unknown. A bloody, battered woman lies against a pole with her hands bound behind her. As she becomes conscious, she sees the man before her.
With eyes bulging out of her head, she fearfully screams, “No! Please don’t!”
With a slash and a final soul-shattering scream, blood splatters on the wall and the room goes dark. She was the last of thirteen.
Every second a people commit crimes. From the most heinous to the most common—murder …show more content…
This program follows the career of Doctor Temperance ‘Bones’ Brennan as she works as Forensic Anthropologist alongside her team and the FBI. By using her knowledge of the human skeletal system, Temperance identifies the gender, race, and age of the victims. Bones holds the title of one of the most factual—yet fictional— television program on the T.V;however, not everything that appears remains factual. One of the most obvious mistakes appears in how fast Temperance deduces the majority of the characteristics of a victim. “As the show is written by a forensic anthropologist (Kathy Reichs) all of the procedures and methodologies Dr. Brennan uses are real, HOWEVER, she is usually able to assess a victim age and sex from a quick look at the bones at the crime scene, this is simply not true” (Calmon, “How Realistic is …show more content…
Brennan works closely with a team of individuals that includes a Forensic Entomologist known as Doctor Jack Hodgins. He,similarly, works alongside the FBI to help identify the time of death and sometimes may be able to reveal where a victim died. Forensic Entomology applies the knowledge of entomology—the study of insects—to legal matters. “Forensic applications of entomology have long had an important role in both civil and criminal legal cases. Indeed, forensic entomology may be said to go back at least as far as the thirteenth century…” (Murad, “Forensic Entomology”). Bones reveals the interworks of the relationships between people in the FBI and other investigative organizations. Bones remains one of the only shows that reveals an indepth look into forensics. This show has inspired a multitude of people to pursue not only a career in criminal justice but a career in forensics as well.
A man in a grey sweatshirt reclines in a chair located in his cold, damp basement. He cleans the blood off a sharp, shiny, and black-hilted knife. He believes that he will go down in history as the greatest master serial killer ever in existence. On the contrary, his perfect world will soon shatter. Standing outside his house awaits the FBI. They have prepared to breach and capture these