#147: Profiling Weather and Crime with Dr. Elizabeth Austin

Real Crime Profile

Real Crime Profile / Wondery

True Crime, Society & Culture, Exhibit C, Documentary

4.2 • 10.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The Real Crime Profile team (Laura Richards, Jim Clemente and Lisa Zambetti) continue their fascinating conversation with forensic meteorologist Dr Elizabeth Austin. We talk storms, mountain waves, hurricanes, airflow, jet streams, energy, tides and crime including missing person, rape and murder cases as well as Dr Austin’s new Weather Channel series, Storm of Suspicion.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime Members, you can listen to Real Crime Profile add free on Amazon Music. Download the app today.
0:07.0	Weather can hide the truth, but it can also reveal the truth.
0:11.0	This list makes you never compensate for the weather, and that's good for us.
0:23.0	More than 150 violent crimes are committed every hour in this country, according to the FBI.
0:29.0	But an increasing number of these crimes are being solved for the help of a new breed of weather professionals called forensic meteorologists.
0:36.0	Forensic meteorology is the use of a meteorology to find the truth in a court case where weather was a factor.
0:43.0	And anything from lightning to hail, snow, even the temperature can be a critical factor when it comes to revealing the truth in a court of law.
0:54.0	Hello and welcome to Real Crime Profile. This is Jim Clemente, retired FBI profiler former New York City prosecutor and writer producer of CBS's Criminal Minds.
1:01.0	And with me remotely today is...
1:03.0	And as we're all remotely, but I'm in London, which is still grey and drizzly, is Laura Richards from a criminal behavioural analyst, New Scotland Yard and founder of Paladin National Stalking Advocacy Service.
1:15.0	And at the other end of Los Angeles County, I am Lisa Zambéry. I'm the casting director for CBS's Criminal Minds,
1:22.0	which I'm Clemente is my colleague.
1:25.0	And we have a very special guest today.
1:28.0	I'm Elizabeth Austin and I am a forensic meteorologist coming to you from Lake Tahoe, Nevada.
1:35.0	Well, thank you so much for joining us. We have so much to talk about with respect to forensic meteorology and the new Weather Channel show Storm of Suspicion.
1:44.0	The Weather Channel shows Storm of Suspicion, so you will want to check your local listings for wherever you are and what time it will be airing.
1:51.0	After Sunday, October 7th, the first show, then the series can be watched every Sunday night through November.
1:58.0	Awesome. Well, thank you for joining us, Dr. Austin.
2:01.0	Thank you for having me.
2:03.0	So, can you take a footprint out of snow? I know it's kind of random, but if somebody leaves their footprints in snow, can you get a good cast out of it?
2:12.0	Well, that's interesting, because that's one episode deals with that very issue.
2:18.0	And the Storm of Suspicion. There you go. This is reading minds again, Lisa.
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