SHACK 4031 FORENSICS

 

Forensic Scene

Lives lost, lives never lived, cut short and passed away in terrible ways, the remains of a corpse, sometimes so disfigured it is hard to remind oneself they were a human being. 

In their birth could they have imagined this would have been their end, did the perpetrator think this as well. The pain which drove the perpetrator to commit such violence, sometimes the marks of deep sustained torture, the remains of the body so mutilated and some left in dignified adornment as if to make a statement of sacrifice or some bizarre cult or religious testimony. Who knows went on in those final moments if the victim was conscious before death and torture came and claimed the life, the person that was and the glee or revenge, hurt vindicated in the strange mind of the perpetrator.

And those whose job it is to collect evidence in order to bring the evidence to the Investigating Officers in the police to offer to the legal authorities if there is sufficient evidence to bring the offender to trial.

The bereft and sometimes relieved left behind, some anxiously wishing to bring justice and closure and some glad that the victim has gone and police witnessing another ghastly crime and the Forensic technicians having to bear the sites and smells of another dismembered corpse or a plain suffocated person in a bed somewhere, then the suicides of people and all the times one could and can think or feel 'what goes on the heads of those who commit such atrocities, the philosophers, the psychologist, the psychiatrists, the counsellors, the therapists, the theologians all have their ideas and theories as to why. 

The tragedies of youths in knife crime and gun crime, the marauding gang fights, babies and children being abused and then killed, the bombers and terrorists, mothers being abused and home abuse, arson, needles drug deaths, alcohol, satanic black magic, cult blood rituals, strange fetish murders so ghastly as to beggar's belief and it goes on night and day twenty fours hours, regardless of country and those who have to forensicate, investigate as if they are partners to the horror.  

Yet all the views and academic postulations does not get to the core and essence of it all and at best they can leave some of us perplexed and dumbfounded and on some it leaves sadness, depression and some sort of anger and in need of therapy, some say it does not affect them, I wonder at this, some have coping mechanisms and distractions and some turn to the acts of the perpetrators and re-enact the scenario in real life in order to solve 'why in the world did they do that and close the horror by doing that' and some just feel well in the brain washed inculcated world the cocktails of emotional garbage get jumbled and the thick weave and webs of dark sinister minds reap their abominable mind stuff to a crazy fiendish end.  

Some just drop their head in disbelief and walk away as if in a trance and have a sort of bemused mental programme and just say 'well all the bibles of the world talk of the horror of wars and disputes, greed and lust, power struggles, corruption and often when it comes from the least expected place. What is your view and how do you deal with it? I guess that is quest of life, dealing with Life and its experiences.

SHACK aka GEOFF