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True Weird Stuff

Bite Me

True Weird Stuff

Now! Media

Science, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.9661 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Witches, serial killers, and Paul Revere all team up in a story of why a very standard kind of courtroom evidence that could help condemn you to prison might actually be total garbage. Oops! So much for taking a bite out of crime.

 

 

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0:00.0

A minister executed for witchcraft, a notoriously charming serial killer, a squad of swash-buckling Los Angeles Dennis, and the science, if it's a science at all, that could actually send you to prison for life.

0:17.1

Throw in the midnight ride of Paul Revere, and you have this episode of true weird stuff.

0:23.3

Bite me.

0:24.0

Bite me.

0:26.5

And they got a small beam of light against the mirror.

0:32.0

Real, wow.

0:33.3

What are you?

0:35.1

No.

0:36.0

No.

0:36.3

No. You know, weird. You would have

0:52.3

You would expect the teeth on the left side to be higher in the arch, or you'd expect the individual to have bitten harder or bitten at an angle in which they were applying more pressure to the left side of the bite than they did to the right.

1:07.1

And in this particular case, we can say we can eliminate the theory of the high tooth because you have two bite rings.

1:14.1

You have A and B.

1:15.0

And when you go up to ring B, you can tell from ring B that the teeth are not higher in the arch.

1:21.0

That was Dennis, Dr. Richard Suveron.

1:24.0

He's kind of like the granddaddy of forensic odontology testifying in July 1979 at the trial of serial killer Ted Bundy.

1:34.6

The jury returned a guilty verdict in this case, the brutal sexual assault of four young women in a sorority house at Florida State University.

1:43.7

Two of the women died. Bundy's violence was

1:46.7

sadistic in the extreme, and I will spare you almost every grim detail because it's just so

1:52.7

horrifying. But Ted Bundy, whether in a moment of calculated and gleeful psychopathy or in the grip of

2:00.5

his own savage wilding, Ted Bundy left a mark,

2:04.8

a bite mark to be exact, on the buttock of one victim. And it was that bite mark that drove

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