362 // Gory Details w/Erika Engelhaupt

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🗓️ 8 March 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Welcome to Crawlspace. In this episode Tim Pilleri & Lance Reenstierna are totally grossed out by the topics their guest brings to the table. Not really, but the brilliant Erika Engelhaupt has some morbid curiosity which she strings together in her book, Gory Details - Adventures From The Dark Side of Science. The conversations touches upon how crime scenes can be compromised by some fly poop. Or how the smallest amount of touch DNA can cast a suspicious shadow on innocent people. Want to know about benign masochism? Or whether your pet will eat your dead body? It's all in this episode. Be sure to pick up Erika's book (hardcover has a glow-in-the-dark cover) at your local bookseller or on Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/p/books/gory-details-adventures-from-the-dark-side-of-science-erika-engelhaupt/15714088?ean=9781426220975 Or listen to the exceptional audiobook narrated by Mari Weiss: https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9781426222306 Visit Erika's website: https://erikaengelhaupt.com/ Follow Erika on Twitter: https://twitter.com/GoryErika Check out our Subscription Service where we have a bundled our bonus material from both the Missing and Crawlspace shows! Ad-free episodes and more at https://missing.supportingcast.fm/ Use promo code, "Missing" for your first month FREE! This episode is sponsored by Morgan & Morgan! If you’re ever injured, you can check out Morgan & Morgan. Their fee is free unless they win. For more information go to ForThePeople.com/CRAWLSPACE. Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/crawlspacepod Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Crawlspacepodcast Follow us on Instagram: https://www.Instagram.com/Crawlspacepodcast Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@crawlspacepodcast The music for Crawlspace was produced by David Flajnik. Listen to his music here: https://www.pond5.com/artist/bigdsound Check out our entire network at http://crawlspace-media.com/ Join the Crawlspace Discussion Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/talkcrawlspace/ Crawlspace Media is part of the Glassbox Media Network. Check them out here: https://glassboxmedia.com/ Follow Private Investigations For the Missing https://investigationsforthemissing.org/ http://piftm.org/donate https://twitter.com/PIFortheMissing https://www.facebook.com/PIFortheMissing/ https://www.instagram.com/investigationsforthemissing/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a Glassbox Media Podcast.
0:30.0	Welcome to Crawl Space. I'm Tim here today with Lance. Lance, how's it going today?
0:39.0	Oh, it's going great today. I'm feeling really good about this conversation that's coming up.
0:44.0	I hope everybody out there's doing well. And I'm feeling really good about your mood because he came into this intro
0:49.0	firing in all cylinders. How are you?
0:51.0	I'm doing great. I'm firing on all cylinders as you said.
0:56.0	And I'm really excited to introduce this conversation we had with this wonderful author.
1:01.0	Her name is Erica Engelhoft and she wrote a book called Gory Details, which is gross in all the best ways.
1:09.0	Right. We touch on that benign massacism that really drives the point home.
1:16.0	If you're going to try to describe this book to somebody, it's about all of those things that you are grossed out about.
1:21.0	You know, it's not going to harm you, but really what stands out about this book and Erica's work is that she is directly relating it in some places to how crime scenes can be misinterpreted or contaminated.
1:33.0	How individuals can be falsely accused when touched DNA just happens to be discovered on somebody's fingernails and they had nothing to do with the crime or how a fly could poop on the wall.
1:44.0	And that looks like blood spatter sort of compromises these crime scenes and we have a lot of good laughs in this conversation.
1:51.0	And I think people are going to find it interesting a little gross and eye opening.
1:55.0	I hope so. And Erica also writes as part of the Gory Details blog from National Geographic.
2:03.0	So she's a prolific writer as well as is now an author.
2:07.0	And she has two signs degrees so you know she knows what she's talking about.
2:12.0	And we just wanted to give a quick shout out. We had mentioned towards the end of the episode.
2:16.0	She really enjoyed and you and I Tim really enjoyed the audio book version of this.
2:20.0	And the narrator on that audio book is the talented Mary Weiss.
2:24.0	And also if you get the hard cover of Gory Details, it has the glow in the dark images and the illustrator is the very talented artist, Briannie Moro Cribs.
2:33.0	Yeah, it is a great book and funny too.
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