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A forensics expert explains just how far removed CSI is from reality

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Stand back behind the yellow tape, everyone! The CSI techs are on their way and they are coming to science—and it’s driving the real forensics experts crazy.

Dawnie Steadman is a forensic anthropologist and the director of the University of Tennesee’s “body farm”—the facility where they do the research that enables a crime tech to come up with answers to questions ranging from how long a body has been someplace to just who it might be. She joined us today to answer your questions about body farms, forensics, and just what CSI was doing to people’s perceptions of forensics in real life.
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