Forensics Investigation of Mutant Ferret

By: Ashmita Dalwadi and Rebekah Rawlins

Forensics Investigation of Mutant Ferret It was one of the scariest experiences of my life. I never imagined such a horrible thing.

Forensics Investigation of Mutant Ferret By: Ashmita Dalwadi and Rebekah Rawlins

One December afternoon, on Tuesday the 12th, a tragedy (or could we call it a stroke of good fortune?) took place. Mr. Stii Rowe Foam, a blind chemistry teacher at Cass High School, was teaching a lesson on chemical reactions. He had planned a demonstration for the students that day; however his teaching aide was absent. He had postponed the demonstration, but upon the students’ pleas, he returned to his original lesson plan. His only condition was that the students be careful and follow his instructions to the par. The students led the teacher to the lab and gave him the chemicals in the right measurements he asked for. But a few minutes into the demonstrations they grew bored of the simple color changing parlor tricks. They decided to have some fun.

They started giving him the wrong chemicals in random amounts, to see what would happen. Soon, the container started bubbling, and a few students left the room not wanting to be caught in what happened next. Then it started making a whistling sound. The remaining students, scared of an explosion, left the lab and someone escorted the teacher out. Not even a few moments after leaving the room, there was a loud explosion and yellowish liquid covering the entire room. The room was cleaned by the school custodian. Mr. Foam later went into the lab at the end of the school day. He said he was attacked by a sort of rabid animal, which he suspected to be the class pet. He

tried to wave it off but it kept coming at him. Somehow he found a tool to kill the deranged animal and after much struggle he succeeded.

First responders arrived at the scene at 4:17pm and secured the area from the people. Police officers questioned Mr. Foam about what had happened. They even called a few students back to the school to question them about the incident. Forensics experts Ashmita Dalwadi and Rebekah Rawlins analyzed the evidence and conducted a few tests to find out the details of what had occurred. They first ran some tests on the blood. The first they ran was that of a precipitin test, which discerns human blood from animal blood. It was the blood of an animal, specifically a ferret. The structure of the DNA bonds in the mammal, were shocking however. It was almost as if the ferret had been operating in a dormant state like in death, which is impossible because normal bodily functions (such as movement of the limbs) do not function after death. It was almost like the mammal was, for lack of a better word, a “zombie”.

They also analyzed the blood spatter on the floor of the room. Serology has come very far since the 1700s. It can now be used to analyze certain microorganisms in a

person’s blood as well as the location the blood came from. (Dugdale, 2013). During the intensive investigation forensics experts, Ashmita Dalwadi and Rebekah Rawlins, were able to find out what the murder weapon was and where the mutant ferret was actually murdered. While analyzing the blood spatter and the individual blood droplets, Ashmita Dalwadi was able to identify the exact murder weapon, a commonly used gardening tool; a hoe. She was able to do this through deductive reasoning and further investigation tests were conducted to prove this hypothesis true. There were many craters and dents in the room and the only thing that was around with the ability to create this much damage enough to destroy the ferret was a hoe.

Further on in the investigation, the two forensics scientists were able to pin point the two origins of impact, the precise locations of where the mutant ferret was clobbered.

They did this through a series of measurements of at least 150 blood spatter droplets. The measured the length and width of each individual droplet. Then found the angle of impact and the point at which many of the blood droplet lines converged.

Measuring the distance from the droplet to the point, they were able to find the height from which Mr. Foam had hit the ferret.

During the configurations of the blood spatter, Rebekah Rawlins was able to determine that the ferret was hit once and upon the hit, resulting in some back splatter; which did cause for the ferret to have been

dragged backwards, therefore making the creature slid. “Blood will disperse in a ‘cone effect.” (Back Spatter, 2012) The mutant then tried to make a run for it, but Mr. Foam hit the mutant once again.

Mr. Foam’s second hit was a blow to the mutant ferret’s head. Causing much damage to the ferret’s head, this did indeed end the “zombie: ferret’s life for good. “The brain is the master organ that controls all body processes. Injuries that cause irreversible brain damage in areas that control lifesustaining functions frequently cause death.”

(John, 2013) The forensics experts believe that the ferret, a class pet, may have digested the hazardous chemical mixture that exploded in Stii Rowe Foam’s lab. It is hard to determine what chemicals were mixed, let alone the correct measurements of each to create the solution. Scientists have tried and failed. The students do not even remember what all they had mixed. No one knows what would have happened if the ferret had lived, though some have their suspicions (about a possible apocalypse). Mr. Foam, despite the murder of a class pet, is praised around his school for the bravery he displayed, despite his disability. He has become a sort of legacy in the area and the students have also learned their lesson about following instructions. One thing we can all say is that the elimination of the mutant ferret by a visually impaired teacher was a miracle.

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