Here's butwhatif?'s post.
BBMOriginally Posted by butwhatif?
I was watching a stream of Law and order the other night where they found a stain in the outline of a human body caused by adipocere. The mentioned that adipocere cannot be removed....ever. The stain will always come back, regardless of how many times it is cleaned.
Now, I dont rely on info from a TV show, so I looked it up myself, and it seems to be true.
So if the state theorizes that the paper towels were used to clean up decomp including adipocere from the trunk of the car, then how is it that none was detected there? Other cases show it can still be detected after decades.
(NOTE: all references I've found are specific to concrete, not carpet, so I don't know if that makes a difference.)
Very interesting report of adipocere stain being tested after almost 30 yrs
http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~jacksong/...%20surface.pdf
Now to the big discovery- Guess where else these same fatty acids are found? Marijuana! Which was the only other compound located on the paper towels. The ratios of these fatty acids vary depending on the individual test sample.
http://www.justice.gov/dea/programs/...num14/pg3.html
~snip- more at above link~
Now I'm wondering why this very significant point was not included in the report along with the speculation of it's possible source (no mention of other possible sources shows tunnel vision IMO.)
The defense are going to have a field day with this, and could rightly point out how biased the reports were.
My guess- they cleaned out their cone/pipe with the paper towels, or used the PT to wipe their sticky fingers from the marijuana resin. This theory accounts for every compound found on the PT. If it were adipocere there would be far more compounds detected according to the research I've done.
So why the "coffin" flies? Phorid flies will feed on decaying organic substances of all kinds.- Not just decaying bodies, as the reports would like us to believe.
Could the maggot-ridden substance found on the napkins be moldy pot?
Here is the report from Arpad Vass which includes fatty acid ratios of the substance: http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c341/jazlynsmum1/papertowelanalyis.png.
You've got to remember that they're working with very sensitive instruments (GC-MS) in this study, so they could have been identifying very small, trace amounts of FA's. I doubt that the amount of fatty acid they found on the paper towels could have come from whatever weed KC (or whoever it was) had. I can see where they were able to identify the THC and cannibinol... but they said that SMALL amounts were present. IIRC, pot is something like 5% THC...so if there was a gram of pot in the trunk (thats about a joint) they would've found around 50 milligrams of THC (which would be easy to identify/measure). The sample size they used for the fatty acid study was 100 milligrams...so there would've been a pretty low amount of THC (they abbreviate it CBD+CBN in their table). They give the ratio of fatty acid to CBD+CBN....and they got really little numbers. Assume that the 100 milligrams of pot was 5% THC, then 5 milligrams was actually THC. If they found 0.15 was the ratio of palmitic acid to THC, you can write the equation 0.15=x/5 and then calculate that x=0.75 milligrams of palmitic acid. That means that 1 gram of pot (a joint) would have 7.5 milligrams of palmitic acid in it....which is insignificant in comparison to the amount they found on the paper towels. 
