Moonlight Dwelling

A good assistant will not allow calls in from unwanted callers.

Your suit will for example will outlast your bones by decades. Zack

Some are so snobby they only converse with PHD's.

Go polish a bone Mr Addy. Goodman

You shouldn't dole out scientists like office temps.

A pond is not only warm and teeming with microbes which accelerate a decomposition but it houses black carpet coi which was found on the body. Hodgins

There should be at least one normal person in a group.

When disgusted go with Eeew!

Cut to the chase instead of droning on.

Fiction bears no resemblance to real people especially co-workers.

Good I prefer holographs they don't stink. Angela

To Determine Racial Indicators

1. Cheekbone dimensions

2. Nasal arch

3. Occipital measurements

I recognized the underlying architecture of her features the rest is just window dressing. Temperence

My most meaningful relationships are with dead people. Temperence

Take the gum the guy threw away for a DNA sample but maybe wait until he walks away to avoid a scene.

No warrant is required if the piece of gum is tossed.

Saliva say from chewing gum is an excellent source of DNA. Temperence

Sometimes stalkers retain keepsakes. Temperence

A good hypothesis withstands testing that's what makes it a good hpypothesis. Zack

Do everything you can to capture the killer after all the victim deserves justice.

Telling a guy to stop destroying evidence won't work.

Sometimes a little breaking and entering is required when evidence to a murder is being destroyed.

No warrant is necessary when one is working with the FBI and has reasonable suspicion of a crime being committed.

Shooting a guy in the leg will stop the guy from burning the evidence.

Suggestions For Squints

1. Get out of the lab.

2. Watch TV.

3. Call someone
When in doubt check the RFS.

Tie your hair back when investigating a crime scene to avoid getting ick in your hair.

Get whatever details are available.

Explosion Supplies

1. Surgical masks for retrieval team

2. Surgical gloves

3. Sterile medical supplies

4. Vegetable oil

When taking photos of an explosion focus on a 30 meter radius from the blast.

Take samples from clothes and look for: Cologne, laundry detergeant

No spouting off conspiracy theories while in the lab trying to ID a body.

Don't touch the table. Hodgins

Complexity of the cranial vault structures matches the statistical probability of Eurasian descent.

When growth patterns in the vertebrae indicate malnourishment as a child.

When you want to learn go ahead and reconstruct a skull.

Return the remains to the widow before they die.

You don't overlook anything when you're looking for the truth. Temperance

You can always count on the dead. Temperance

Build a bomb just for fun and prove to be better than the FBI.

The liver is like a filter. It would contain evidence of any toxins in the system. Temperance

Kill the bugs even if they have names when a poison needs to be identified.

The Bomb

The insulation they used is gypsum based with plaster and lead mixed with asbestos.
Actually the person who decides if this was a suicide is me. Temperence

Check for insect pupa and larva. See what kind of medication or drugs might have been in his system. Temperence

I'm not gonna declare it a murder just so you can shake things up. Temperence

When the evidence is ambiguous make sure to unambiguize it.

Scientists don't listen to their gut.

He didn't void, usually sombody hangs themselves the floodgates open bodily fluids everywhere. Zack

When in doubt work it up to a three dimensional image.

When searching for people parts don't forget to check the bear crap.

Make sure you put on gloves before diving into the big pile of crap and don't forget to wash your hands afterwards.

Someone eating raw human flesh is going to get sick. Temperence

Send meat to the lab when you don't know what kind it it.

Try to pull back emotionally and put your heart in a box.

Focus on the details. Temperence

It helps not to refer to the victim by name. Temperence

Don't forget to smell because you might find one that doesn't belong.

Take samples to identify the chemical.

Scrape off the particles and see if the mass spectrometer can identify the type of chemical.

Save shop talk for the lab.

Don't compromise the body at a scene.

A cloud of meth can cause your eyes to become as big as saucers.

Hands are easiest to work with when they're dismembered.

Rehydrate hands of a mummy to get some fingerprints.

Peel the skin off carefully and put on your hands to make it easier to get a print.

To deal with a hangover grab a few hours sleep and take a shower in the lab's decontamination room.

Make sure to put the eyeballs in a jar.

Use the scanning microscope for a closer look.
When you need Xrays get the originals since the copies are useless.

When double checking on a murder case don't forget the bone scrapings, lab results, and tox screens.

Stress fractures on the tibia indicate injury from dance or running.

See if the shadows are bone fragments or something else.

Let's pretend we're objective scientists and not indulge in conjecture. Temperence

Take pictures of the area where the body was found. Also take pictures of the surrounding areas.

Anamolies can become meaningful.

Exhume the body when you have questions that need answering.

I don't like to form any conclusions before all the evidence is in. Temperence

When looking for a tire iron in a marsh use metal detectors and GPR.

Dig gently, small layers at a time. Temperence

The victims deserve to be heard.

Stick to work related topics.

See about insect activity in order to help you be more precise.

Remove and clean the bones.

It's easy to do a sketch of the victim when the skull is intact.

Run chemical analysis and toxicity screens on any fluids found.

Find out if narcotics found are from one dose or over a period of time.

Find out if the drug was taken intravenosly or orally.

Video the guy conducting an investigation of the remains.

That's not accurate sometimes intense pain does not respond to medication. Temperence

I see a face on every skull. I can look at their bones and tell yo how they walked, where they hurt. Temperence

A hole in the head with the skeleton holding a gun isn't always a suicide.

A suicide won't have the person's arm across the chest.

Don't drink while working.

It's best to make unbiased initial observations.

Search the clothing for insect evidence.

Put on a mask when taking a couple core samples.

When the alarms go off run don't walk to the decontamination shower.

The doors seal automatically when there's a biological contamination.

Make sure you always conform to autopsy protocol.

Don't forget to get dressed after your decontamination shower.

So you don't have to worry about spores zap the bones with ultraviolet light and arrange them on the isolation table.

We don't form pictures, we accumulate evidence. Temperence

Expect a bunch of shots when there's a biological contamination.

When you're not sure if you're sick you should take drugs just in case.

The guy in charge claims the right for being first for visiting hours when under lockdown.

You're ok if the guy removes the protective covering.

Authenticate the remails or dash the hopes of scholars.

Don't remind the guy in charge that he used to be an archeologist.

Use Xrays and pictures when dealing with remains that are fifteen hundred years old.

Use latex gloves to touch the remains as little as possible.

A fresh body is a little bit more urgent than the one from the Iron Age.

You're sent on a case that will bring good press to the insitute.

Get a feel for the remains befor eyou actually do anything.

When authenticating a find from the Iron Age etc you have to be on top of your game.

The findings are to be congruent with the facts.

Don't piss off the boss because it won't get you anywhere.

Plastic surgery makes it very difficult to ID the remains.

Write details down in a report to bear scrutiny from peers.

Try filling in the surgical scarring when dealing with a skull that's had multiple surgeries.

Sometimes you have to make a best estimate based upon your experience and expertise.

The find can't be authenticated when the skull may not belong to the body.

Compare the wounds to the marks on the jaw to figure out what the murder weapon was.
When it's not fleshy enough for tongue it's cartilage.

Be cooperative with the one performing a routine security review and civil.

Grind a segment of femur for trace analysis.

Get the earwax analyzed to see what can be found.

Psychology is of no use in an investigation.

It would be a bad time if you have to interrupt the person to ask.

Demand a lawyer to get out of the pesky review.

Seizures could be due to low blood sugar, electrocution, infection, head injury, brain tumor, sudden lack of oxygen in the brain. Zack

Don't share any secret information.

Put dentals into the NCIC to see about finding a match.

Delay the date with the ancient Chinese bones until after a murder's been solved.

Go with they hypotheses that are congruent with forensic evidence.

After cleaning the bones look for scoring on the occipital cuondile and the infer nukoline.

Be very careful when Xrays show fragmentation of the cervical vertebrae.

Fragmentation of the cervical vertebrae is consistent with sharp force trauma.

Clean the bones and try to match a weapon to the damage done.

Make sure to leave enough bone to get a DNA sample when the piece is small.

You get called in when a dead body's found in a vehicle driven by a gang member.

Make a sketch of the face to see if a match can be found.

Hands off the table with the remains unless you're wearing gloves.

Wear a mask when using the bone saw.
If a bone fragment that's uncharred is found with other remains that are charred that's because it has nothing to do with the crash.

When dismemberment and little bits are involved it's a murder.

Don't discuss ongoing investigations.

For a possible ID on a skull fragment use a picture to construct a schematic to see if the shard fits the general shape of the skull.

Jagged marks on bone indicate some kind of a machine blade.

Figure out how the remains of a place crash were scattered as well as reassembling them.

No hovering when someone is about to kiss.

If the corpse was frozen when fed through a wood chipper no blood residue would be found.

Match the blade marks to the cuts on the bone.

Run a disperal pattern test on the chippper.

Wear gloves when holding a frozen pig to avoid frostbite.

Do what the boss tells you to do or failing that fail him.

A new delivery of a possible mob boss is top priority.

If no bullets are found Xray the bones for any bullet fragments.

Be very careful when cleaning the entrance and exit wounds so any markings the bullet left as it passed through the bone can be recovered.

Someone tortured and ripped apart by dogs takes precedence over any previous priority.

Save the excrement of dogs that brutally ripped apart a person.

Check for fibers that might have been missed.

If the bullet wounds can't be cleaned even after working on them for hours take a sinus probe and put a little cotton swab on the end and dip it in water and then dab it inside the wound until it's clean.

After discharge every bullet has a distinct pattern etched into it from the barrel of the gun right? That same pattern would be etched into the bone as it passes through. If we can recover that pattern we can reverse engineer the bullet. Temperence

Knife marks found on CS indicate that the throat was slashed.

No serial killers they follow a pattern. They don't bind and torture and then start picking people off with a high powered rifle. James

An arrangement of items in a suspect's room can be very important so take photographs before moving anything.

Lack of hemorrhage in the surrounding eye tissue suggests she was already dead before the eyes were removed. Zack

When rats scattered the remeains take pictures within a five minute radius.

A pin in the knee can idenify the remains by the serial number.

Xray an object so stress from the initial pressings should provide a clear picture of what's been worn away.

The boss is allowed to share simple conjecture.

Ok make a list of possible implements using the size and force of the damage. Temperence

Identifying the victim and the weapon means the job is done so it's all right to take an impromptu vacation.

Don't listen to music while working.

The work deserves your full concentration without outside distractions.

An assistant doesn't carry all that much weight.

If you expect to win arguments around here you'll need at least one doctorate. Goodman

Preserve the bone properly otherwise you get a lecture for your incompetence.

Run a radio carbon dating test to destermine the age of the bone.

Don't clean a bone before extracting all the available information from it.

Diminished flourescence that only happens if the bones have been cleaned and treated.
Head injuries are extremely unpredictable. Temperence

You can't get certain details from an Xray no matter how long you stare at it.

Ok everybody the word dirt means nothing here in the lab.

206 bones are in the human bodyy with a lot of grafting possibilities.

Even ashes can have bone fragments still intact to allow a person to identify the remains.

Only those that work in the lab get to harrass the assistant.

Cutting through periosiom for grafting purposes takes medical training. Temperence

Bone dust is very dangerous when inhaled.
Bag any singed plant life or debris around a burned body.

Simplify the words for us non squints.

Magnify the marks on the cranium to see if they can be matched to any kind of weapon.

Exhuming a boy is a necessary evil that can provide much needed answers.

Calculate the height off the femur and assume the fire shrunk her spine. Temperence

Scan the outside of the skull. Look for histological changes, microscopic modeling. Temperence
All right every survivor's one less person for me to autopsy. Cam

High bones suggest the person was tall.

We are tighter than a nun's knees on this one. No press. No conjecture with anyone outside this room. Cam

The bone loss and lack of bone density suggests the person is much older than forty.

Age doesn't explain the ossification of cartilage where the ribs meet the sternum. Brennan

Ossificiation of the cartilage suggests the person was a heroin addict.

Use gaschrometography to narrow things down further when trying to track down the source of a drug.

When conducting an experiment involving setting something on fire make a body out of artificial bone and Spam.

Unauthorized experiments of forensics will get you fired. Cam

Wait until the bitchy new boss leaves and continue the experiment permission be damned.

In the future when you have problems with my team you register them with me in private not by grandstand in a public forum. Cam

Well if she's been in water for a year the bones would be saturated. Brennan

If the body's been in water for around a year there will not be a lot of flesh to work with.

Hurry so your remains don't get compromised.

Don't forget the soluble tape when dealing with a body in water.

Don't compromise the bones by scrapping use suction instead.

No conclusions without corroboration. Brennan

You have to be open to the evidence no matter where it takes you.

Don't ignore facts just because it may change the outcome of the case. Brennan

A raccoon's hands are almost identical to an infant's hands.

An infant's skull is made up of several seperate bones that are eventually fused together. Brennan

It can take as little as five seconds for an infant to die by shaking. The veins that attach the brain to the inside of the skull detach blood pools, the brain swells. Brennan

When in doubt double the magnification like in the case of having seven fingers and two right hands.

When a body is found in a garbage truck all the garbage comes back to the lab.

Angela's Clever Way To ID The Body With A Shroud

I used computer tomography to create Xray slices of the underlying facial architecture selective lasers centering allowed me to map unprinted areas.

Someone should care about the actual evidence and not make assumptions.

Anazlye the impact damage to determine the weapon used.

When in doubt identify the species of rose found in the hand since it could be helpful.

Being called a perv can give a person the motivation to pretend to be one when acting out possible murder scenarios.

Go with an endless explanation to get the boss to agree to the experiment.

Don't forget to put your glasses on when conducting an experiment with ammonia.

Elongation of the spine means the body was hung upside down while still alive.

Just bring the whole tub when the remains are ick filled.

Get a forklift and a flatbed to carry heavy remains like a tub of ook.

Hurry when chemicals are eating away your victim.

Use a hoe for the big pieces when dealing with remains turned to goop.

To get equipment like field water sifters drop the boss lady's name twice.

A hip replacement suggests someone elderly or someone with brittle bones.

Leave Mr Tub of Lard in the ooky room.

People can we at least fake some sense of decorum? Cam

Be careful what you say in front of the lady with a scapel.

If the holes in the skull are void of blood the wound was inflicted after death.
Debris embedded in the remains and a giant hole in the wall suggests an explosion.

Remains are unlikely to be vaporized in an explosion.

Paint, combustables they would have added to the force of the fire and explosion. Brennan

The deep tissue remains intact if a body is thrown above a fire.

Listen people please don't be sending stuff without informing me first. Cam

Just run everything by me first ok. Every circus needs a ringmaster. In this circus it's me. Cam

There's a loop people and I'm in it. Not only am I in it I'm th ebig curvy part. Cam

When preparing to do an experiment that involves an explosion do the math carefully.

The best idea is to wait outside while the others watch through the porthole in the blast wall while conducting an explosion.

A dislocated shoulder is a tyical injury of a victim on the ground straining against someone strangling them from behind.

The T3 and the T4 vertebrae are behind the lungs.
To shorten time when reviewing tapes run them through the body mass recognition program.

You should never indulge in a romantic relationship with someone you work with. Brennan

Am efficient workplace is predicated upon a simple hierarchy. Romance undermines that hierarchy. Brennan

It's always fun to flirt in the workplace but out there when fantasy becomes a reality it's a drag. Cam

Repeated blows the the head can damage the bones of the inner ear. Brennan

When more bodies are possible when two bodies are found instead of one send the bodies along with bugs, dirt to see if there's a forensic link.

A garrote can be wrapped so tightly around a neck that it slices through and severes the carotoid artery leaving cuts that are narrow like a razor blade.

Perform a live autopsy while the thermal imaging program can reconstruct a theoretical fight to see if the victim was killed as a result of it.

Blood pools in recent injuries themal imaging records that. Cam

Thermal imaging can reveal something that was missed while examining the remains.

Get photos and medical exam results of the victims of a serial kidnapper murderer to see if the same stun gun was used every time.

Leg damage and a fractured pelvis are classic human versus car injuries.

Hypoxia leads to mental confusion. Jack

The chatter marks mean the vertebrae weren't split in one blow.

Annouce each phase of your experiment especially when testing weapons.

Of course people on PCP have been known to exhibit extraordinary strength. Cam

Estimate the position of the moon from shadow patterns of the forest floor to find the murder site coordinates.

Do a scraping of a truck trunk that has a lot of blood on it.

When two sets of DVD are hard to seperate that means they are related.

Condust the autopsy of an exhumed body as if the whole world's watching.

Contortion indicates a painful death. Brennan

Bones would show signs of a prior break.

When a psycho's on the loose double the security when an employee's life is possibly threatened.

Stay at the lab instead of going home when a serial killer's on the loose.

This is my autopsy we're gonna do it by the book that means surface exam followed by x-rays after which I will open the skull. Cam

Screw protocols when a little kid could have been murdered.

Call for help when some poison has been released into the air and grab a mask.

Cut below the bruising so you don't disturb the area.

If the person a few feet away wasn't affected means the poison isn't a toxic gas.

Check for traces of the poison on the clothes.

Don't forget to look electrostatically.

If you can't find any particles on the clothes check the head.

Put too small a sample into the photo electric aerosol sensor then I'll both lose teh sample and not get an accurate response. Jack

Bring the whole gator in when there's a dead girl inside.

SPM reveals hidden hematomes in decomp tissue. Cam

Shaded areas on SPM indicates bruising.

Just because you're a person's superior doesn't mean you should act all superior to them.

When it turns out to be a murder one tends to be a lot less charitable so the rough college sex gets demoted to rape.

If there was a sweet smell when a toxin was released it's not choloronnethal.

When the jugular's cut the air mixes with venous blood and negative pressure causes an air embolism death is very quick. Cam

If there's no blood in the thoracic cavity the victim was stabbed in the heart post mortom.

his jugular was severed multiple stabs are congruent with killers jacked on crystal meth or just plain adrenaline. Cam

Don't tamper with the evidence to hide a connection with a murder victim.

Crab season they'll feed anything dead or alive vegeatation, fish, flesh. Jack

In this lab we are concerned with science not fiction. Brennan

If the bullet isn't there it is in one of the rats and there's no exit wound.

Xray the rats to find the missing bullet.

Be careful with fire ants they're extremely dangerous. Jack

Use a flame thrower when dealing with fire ants.

Insulin is a naturally occurring substance in the body so it wouldn't turn up on a tox screen.

No reversals on heads with no skulls.

No putting faces and building a skull.

There are no prints when a body was boiled.

No bones no Bones needed.

Bone people should only do bone things.

When trying to estimate the height of a boneless body think boiled leather because the same principal may apply.

Use a reflecting spectostrophy on the tissue to get a rough idea of when blows were sustained and if the were fatal on the boneless body.

Do a osteological profile on the bone to see about getting a geographical location of where the victim came from.

Give the poor victim a face after someone turned the head into a balloon.

Residue in an empty casket shows whether or not the body was embalmed.

With burial records identification should be pretty straight forward. Brennan

There's evidence of blood pooling on the frontal bone and an absence of concentric fractures. That requires investigation. Zack

Expect dark in a place full of the dead.

Don't involve a third party especially your boss in the mushy stuff.

Resaturate the dried blood to see if its of any value.

Broken bones and bone marking from yanking jewelry and remains just screams grave robber.

Ship back the whole slab of concrete along with the body to find out what happened.

Curve marks on a severed limb indicated an amputation.

Sometimes you have to step out of your comfot zone and try interpreting instead of processing.
19 goes here

Acknowledge the remains as a person and don't be so casual about talk of removing flesh or boiling.

A video link with the lab is needed especially when the body is glowing.

Extra precautions are taken when the dead body is glowing.

Use some fabric softener on a shriveled finger to make it look like a finger again and get prints.

Oh good lord you two need to stop mounting each other in the office. Cam

Instead of saying the word projectile try slug instead.

When art made science her bitch recheck for other indications you get the age wrong.

Look for a scientific rational for rechecking like the liping on the vertebrae had to have been caused by looking up over a period of several years.

When in doubt use spam for testing.

Use sea chimps to confirm that they would feed on decomposing human tissue.
You can always find room in the basement for those times when you ned to bring in a bank vault.

Check the DNA to be 100% sure the bones are all from the same victim.

When the body parts are seared to the car the whole t hing goes to the lab and the bomb guys can come along to do their thing there.

Stay out of the van until the bomb tech comes Hodgins. Cam

You can say walk around instead of ambulatory without getting fired.

Dead guy. Foul play. It's your main function. Cam

Warning: A cold bucket of water will be thrown on you if you make with the smoochies.

The Halloween party is compulsory so show up in costumes and do your duty.

Eyes on the evidence. Cam

If you mail something to the Jeffersonian it doesn't need to be cleared by customs or security. Brennan

Use the victim's name instead of referring to him as sludge.

The huge bacterial count and unseasonable warm weather explains why the rats found him so digestable. Cam

Base on the degree of bloating and purged fluids I'd estimate time of death between 72 and 96 hours ago. Check the sewer sludge and bugs gives me confirmation. Cam

Evidence is evidence whether anyone is there to hear it or not.

Use the scanning electron microscope to find out what was used to conk the victim on the head.