GraceG
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Are there dogs that can track cadavers? I know they have dogs that find cadavers and dogs that track lice scent, but if someone carried Ashanti to the church, can they back track the scent? I hope this isn't a stupid question��
Yes, I've worked with them. They are trained to detect decomp, and can go to where there is bone, blood, and tissue, and locate where a person WAS even if the body is removed. However, to follow a trail, the dogs have different training. You have dogs known as trailing dogs and air-scenting dogs. Trailing dogs follow a scent that has fallen on the ground. These dogs can pick out a human, or in the case of a Cadaver dog that's trained as a trailing dog, a decomposing human's cent that was carried on a breeze, or "fallen" from a person carrying a body to its location. But this many days out, detecting it becomes much more difficult. Warm and dry conditions really have a negative impact on scent survival, making it more easily dispersed and destroyed. Direct sunlight quickly drys out and destroys vapors. Given that it looks as if she was moved across open grass behind the church, this many days out, I would find it highly unlikely one of the dogs could track her to where she was brought into the property from.