CSI SA: The creepy-crawly cops
18 May 2015 - 02:00
What Lieutenant Melanie Pienaar stared at under her microscope made no sense. Pienaar is a forensic entomologist who helps to establish the time of death in police cases. Often the kind of insect discovered on a body and the level of decomposition indicate how and when the victim died.What Pienaar found on the body of eight-year-old Kiana Williams was the maggot of a fly that appeared to have been in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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