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| - In 1996, Lieutenant Bob Bletcher asked Cheryl Andrews to examine a severed human tongue which had been mailed, anonymously and without explanation, to a middle-aged widow. While Lieutenant Bletcher, Jim Penseyres and Frank Black watched, Andrews carried out the procedure in a morgue. All four were aware that three other people had received severed body parts over the last four years. In her examination of the tongue, Andrews determined that it had been removed after the victim's death, unlike the other body parts, and that the instrument used to remove it had been more blunt and less skillfully applied than instruments previously used. Andrews doubted that her discovery related to rage or loss of control as the cuts had simply been made with imprecision, not unusual aggression. She believe
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| - In 1996, Lieutenant Bob Bletcher asked Cheryl Andrews to examine a severed human tongue which had been mailed, anonymously and without explanation, to a middle-aged widow. While Lieutenant Bletcher, Jim Penseyres and Frank Black watched, Andrews carried out the procedure in a morgue. All four were aware that three other people had received severed body parts over the last four years. In her examination of the tongue, Andrews determined that it had been removed after the victim's death, unlike the other body parts, and that the instrument used to remove it had been more blunt and less skillfully applied than instruments previously used. Andrews doubted that her discovery related to rage or loss of control as the cuts had simply been made with imprecision, not unusual aggression. She believed that the pattern change could be accounted for if the victim had died before the killer had meant for them to die, or if the killer had been interrupted in their work. Later, a severed human leg was found in the Federal Office Building in downtown Seattle. Frank Black took a soil sample from a sock found on the leg and Cheryl Andrews later analysed the sample. She searched through a database to find an identical sample and later informed Detective Bletcher that the soil was probably from a bog. The soil contained cranberry seeds but no herbicide or pesticide, suggesting that it was from a shut down cranberry farm that had been out of production for a couple of years. When Bletcher called Detective Bob Giebelhouse to enter the office, Cheryl asked both men if they were familiar with Chelan County. When Detective Bletcher replied positively, Andrews announced her suspicion that they could probably limit the origin of the soil to a few specific sites with the help of a topographical map. As the amputee could still be alive, a task force was immediately organized to search for him. The body was found but the victim was already dead. Back at the morgue, Cheryl Andrews and a pathologist named Curt Massey examined the remains of the body while Frank Black, Jim Penseyres and Detectives Bletcher, Giebelhouse and Teeple watched. Andrews told Detective Bletcher that the victim had died not long ago, estimating two hours or less. When Pathologist Massey noted that the victim had been kept alive by using an improvised tourniquet, Andrews added that he had used his own belt. (MM: "The Judge")
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