As Jbean said in her post your opinion is noted. Jbean also notes that the evidence and such is in direct conflict with that opinion (paraphrased).
However lets look at the reality of the situation and the evidence. Multiple witnesses have given statements as to the smell. GA was in LE and a detective no less. His testimony is very clear and precise as to what the smell was. The evidence in this case is pretty clear as to what was in the trunk. It wasn't trash and certainly wasn't the trash found in the vehicle that caused that smell. We aren't talking about 40 or 50 lbs of rotten meat in the trunk. It was empty food containers in the trash if I remember right from the doc's.
The reality of it is this. Human decomp doesn't smell like trash especially the type of trash found in Casey's car. Also there was no dead animals found in the trunk. It was empty processed food containers. In no way will empty processed food containers smell like human decomp....period.
I understand you have never personally smelled human decomp and that's a good thing. However that lack of knowledge also makes it very hard for someone to understand the full reality of how bad human decomp really is. For people that have smelled it they completely understand the clear difference in human decomp and a bag of empty processed food containers. In fact I find the notion rather silly considering my experience with it. Not a slam on people that may think they could smell the same, but with experience in having smelled it. I find the notion personally humorous do to my own knowledge that it is so vastly different.
To illustrate: Every day people take their trash out. Some in various degrees of age/putridity and yes it smells bad but it's not something that is going to bring an experienced LEO the heaves/vomit or requires one to place vicks vapor rub under their nose just to get the stench from over powering you. Which by the way is hard to get out of facial hair.
Also I would like to point out that cadavers in a lab setting and those in the county morgue in storage also do not smell like real world decomposing humans or ones that have been found burned in a fire.
As a Criminal Justice major in college I worked with specimens in the cadaver lab during our forensics class. The same lab was used by the nursing and pre-med students as well. As a volunteer fire fighter I have been in homes for wel-fare checks in which the person died in the home and was there for some time as well as being near burned bodies. Empty processed food containers simply would not produce this odor....period.
Thank you for providing us with valuable information. I myself have seen plenty of dead people in my life time. I was in a horrible flash flood when I was 14 years old in which over 200 people died in the area i was located. Furthermore, my own spouse died in my arms, but I do not claim in any way shape or form that I know the smell of death even though I have probably smelled it a few times in my life. I think you need that close up experience like my son (a fireman) to really know what it is your talking about.
But really with such a compelling arguement or conclusion, can you see the defenses questions in this scenario after this has been established? Here are some examples and I would like your take on what you think will happen.
Mr S Birch, in light of the fact that we have established that the smell of death is so distinct, so unique, that you could never possibly forget it, and that is a smell that can not possibly be mistaken for anything else, When you smelled the smell of death, why did you not immediatley call 911? You went back to work.
Mr Anthony , I ask you the same. You yourself said you could never forget that smell. You even said the dead body in that trunk was not my grandaughter, you even said under your breath you said please don't let this be my daughter or granddaughter, I ask you sir, Why did you not immidiatley call 911? you went to work.
Mrs Anthony, you even said it smells like a dead body was in the car. Why did you not immediatley call 911? You went to work
Mr and Ms police officer, you know the smell, you have smelled it several times in your carreer. Why did you not immediatley seal off the car as a crime scene?
Mr Yuri, You are former homicide. You know that smell is so distinct and not mistaken. Why did you not seal off the car? Why did you not ask Kc about the smell?
How do you think this is going to play out in court if they are indeed able to establish that these people are not mistaken and are considered experts on the smell?
Thanks
