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I admit there will always be a place in my heart for forensics and the interworkings of the human body...and investigations and whatnot. (Though I often try to conceal my fascination regarding these subjects as I admit that I am embarrassed with this particular interest of mine...)

Anyway...

I was watching 'In Cold Blood' (on ID Discovery). This was one fucked up episode in the first place but there was one detail in particular that just continues to disturb me...read on.

The crime took place in a teeny tiny village in Whales, apparently the safest place to live statistically in the UK. It was so small they were able to collect blood samples from every male (who was over 18 and in town at the time...) to eliminate citizens from the collected DNA speciman.

In a nutshell the crime details:

1. Elderly widow is found murdered
2. she is drained of her blood and her heart lies cut out in a pot roast
3. cross symbols are found at the scene
4. teenage art student thinks he is vampire
5. he thinks drinking blood will give him eternal life
6. "Suicide" took place near the crime scene shortly after the murder.

Eventually of course the kid gets caught and goes to jail but the "suicide" was ruled unrelated. Unrelated! The guy scratched cross symbols all over the place, set himself on fire and jumped off a bridge! He was a Pagan with dark underworld magic type interests and was around the same age as the suspect.

On top of that, this incident was only briefly mentioned. "In an unrelated but suspicious occurence..."

WTF! Where's the 45 minute story on this? This must be one hell of a statisicist! Remind me to look this fellow up next time I need to sway the opinion of the public.