How Blowflies Solved a Murder in 1235 | Forensic Briefing

In 1235, a Chinese death investigator named Song Ci solved a murder without a single witness. His only tool? A swarm of flies.

Blowflies can detect decomposing organic compounds from over a mile away. When Song Ci ordered villagers to lay their sickles in the sun, flies swarmed only one blade, drawn to invisible blood traces. The owner confessed.

Nearly eight hundred years later, forensic entomologists still use blowfly biology to estimate time of death with startling precision.

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