Kay Scarpettta Chapter Summary

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An unidentified corpse arrived in a cargo ship, offering precious clues as to the man’s identity. Enter Chief Medical Examiner, Kay Scarpetta, whose investigation leads her across the Atlantic to Interpol’s headquarters in France. She soon discovers that the dead man came from a very wealthy family and was also involved in a criminal cartel which may be linked to Scarpetta”sintrepid niece, ATF agent, Lucy Farineli. With the help of Pete Marino and the hindrance of someone desperate to ruin her career from inside, Scarpetta must locate and stop the killer before he strikes again on U.S soil. (SFS1) When Dr.Scarpetta went to exam the body she removed the breastplate of rib so she could look at the organ of the dead body. They were soft and …show more content…

I don’t think it is realistic because they have other technology to detect the alcohol level in the brain. That’s why it’s impossible and unpredictable but Dr. Scarpetta will try to found out the cause of death …show more content…

The first thing she did was swab the for saliva mouth of the corpse and then took photograph of the dead body. Her autopsy revealed the bullet in Kim Luong’s neck had hit her carotid also bruised her spinal cord between the fifth and sixth cervical disk. That injury instantly paralzyed her .Her spleen, kidney and liver were within normal limits. She was dragged while spurting blood everywhere by one of the robbers. Yes this is realistic, but it’s still unbelievable because the robber didn’t have to drag her. She was already dying, but It was impossible for her not to know something was wrong or a sign of a break in .It was predictable that she was going to die because she had been dragged and blood was going everywhere. (SFS5) In Chapter 26 the road was clear enough for the other forensic scientist to come to work and the examiner but to come to work the PRC polymerase chain reaction made it possible to get a blood sample in days instead of weeks. The hair that was taken from Kim Luong and the man in The container match but the fingerprint was different. That’s not realistic because normal. The hair and fingerprint match. This unbelievable and kind of impossible to happen. No one couldn’t have even predicted it. I think this is an inside job and could have something to do with Dr.Scapetta husband’s

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