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Name ______________________ Date ________ Period _____ The Father of Forensics: The Groundbreaking Cases of Sir Bernard Spilsbury, and the Beginnings of Modern CSI Colin Evans CHAPTER 5 pages 121 through 149 VOCABULARY Omnipotence: Blandishments: Impasse: Reticence: Ostensibly: Tryst: Debacle: Harangue: ANALYSIS 1. Patrick Mahon’s wife Jessie got him a job at her place of business. The business was closed, and the assets liquidated, but Mahon and his wife were asked to stay on. Why? 2. Mahon did not love Emily Kaye, but she loved him madly. She was soon carrying his child, and they traveled and stayed together. Why did Mahon not desert her like he had so many before? 3. What was so unusual about the involvement of Hilda Bainbridge (the wife of the late Prof. Francis Bainbridge, a collegue of Spilsbury’s at St. Bart’s hospital) in the “Bungalow Murder” case?

4. Spilsbury completed his “big picture analysis” of the Bungalow at the Crumbles before going into any further detail. Why was this so important? 5. Spilsbury asked Savage and his men to remove the human remains from the Bungalow, and they did so without using any protection. What was Spilsbury’s reaction, and what came of the incident? 6. Emily Kaye’s body was eventually reconstructed, and what conclusions did Spilsbury draw? What did Scotland Yard use for the very first time to attempt to find the head of Kaye’s body? 7. What happened to Patrick Mahon in the courtroom that sealed his fate with the hangman? 8. What did Spilsbury learn and suggest after autopsying Mahon’s hanged body?