9. Fort Apache, the Bronx (1981).
10. The New Centurions (1972).
11. If zombies are dead or, as some of our medical experts theorize, working on a reduced metabolism, their body temperature may be so low that thermal scans may either miss them or get confused readings.
12. Not to be confused with SERT, which is a regional version of SWAT.
13. For more on K-9 cops, see Chapter 5.
14. For more on the force continuum, see Chapter 5.
1. Dental Identification and Forensic Odontology, published by Klimpton, 1976.
2. Gregg Winkler writes for www.horrorweb.com.
3. Generally the most serious wounds are photographed at the hospital since emergency medical treatment at the scene of the crime naturally prohibits the taking of such pictures.
4. Andrea Campbell is the author of Detective Notebook: Crime Scene Science (Sterling, 2004) and Forensic Science: Evidence, Clues, and Investigation (Chelsea House Publications, 1999).
5. www.ronsmithandassociates.com.
6. Such as SICAR, a standalone system that works in conjunction with Solemate, a database of over 8,000 shoes from 300 manufacturers.
7. Information provided by Foster & Freeman—www.fosterfreeman.com.
8. Elizabeth Becka is the author of Trace Evidence, Hyperion, 2005.
9. The U.S. military currently does not share its fingerprint database with law enforcement except under very special circumstances.
10. Not splatter.
11. Women have about 4 to 5 liters; men have about 5 to 6 liters.
12. Which, as we’ll discover later in this chapter, they didn’t.
13. Not to be confused with blowback, which is blood and tissue flying into the barrel from the victim.
14. Bryon Morrigan is also the author of Haunted Clearwater (Schiffer Books, 2008).
15. Jonathan Santlofer is the author of four novels including Anatomy of Fear (William Morrow, 2007); and has been a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome.
16. Myiasis is a disease of animals or humans caused by fly larvae feeding on the host’s necrotic tissue.
1. For more on this topic see the sidebar, “Oh, Come On Now!” in Chapter 2.
2. Admittedly, I personally hope that there are some spooky legends that are never fully explained.
3. Office of Homeland Security.
4. From an admittedly fictional paper, Etiology of Romero-Fulci Disease: The Case for Prions, published in the fake-but-should-be-real Journal of Zumbie Science, 2005, 1519–1523.
5. Prion rhymes with aeon.
6. Courtesy of the World Health Organization.
7. Dr. Liberski is also the author of The Enigma of Slow Viruses: Facts and Artifacts (Springer-Verlag Telos, 1993) and Light and Electron Microscopic Neuropathology of Slow Virus Disorders (CRC-Press, 1993)
8. An isoform is a protein that has the same basic function as another protein but which has been encoded by a different gene and may, therefore, exhibit differences in its sequence.
9. Part of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/Universite Nice Sophia-Antipolis in Valbonne, France.
10. Part of the University of Pittsburgh.
11. -78.5 °C (-109.3 °F).
12. Millimoles per liter.
13. Exsanguination is the process of removing all blood from a body.
14. Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia.
15. Police department personnel.
16. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. It’s based at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
17. From the Greek for “all people.”
18. www.who.int.
19. Properly known as Yersinia pestis, a gram-negative facultative anaerobic bipolar-staining bacillus bacterium belonging to the family Enterobacteriaceae.
20. C.E. = Christian Era, a somewhat more politically correct term now in common use in modern literature; it replaces A.D. (anno Domini).
21. Also known as Lucius Ceionius Commodus Verus Armeniacus.
1. Jerry’s blog can be found at www.jerrywaxler.com.
2. The name translates as “All-Indian Hindu Assembly,” a Hindu nationalist organization founded in 1915.
3. Rabbi Shevack is also the author of Adam and Eve, Marriage Secrets from the Garden of Eden (Paulist Press, 2003).
4. See the section on “But First a Word About Zombies” for more on how Wellington explores this theme.
1. SWAT: Special weapons and tactics is a general term used by many police departments; SERT: South central emergency response team.
2. In the Resident Evil films, zombie Dobermans are a common plot device.
3. Dr. Stenning’s comment first appeared in a doctoral thesis by Dr. Kelly M. Jones, 1995, and is now used in most standard SWAT training manuals.
4. Also known as “failure drills!”
5. www.usdoj.gov.
6. OC spray, also known as pepper spray, is an abbreviation of Oleoresin Capsicum, and is a lachrymatory agent, which is a chemical compound that irritates the eyes to cause tears, pain, and even temporary blindness.
7. He declined to be named.
8. Fps: feet per second.
1. From the shooting script by George A. Romero.
2. In the oldest Egyptian histories Anubis was the god of the dead and the son of Ra; but in later histories he is depicted as the son of Osiris and the guardian of the dead who greets the newly dead and protects them on their journey to the underworld.
3. And if you know that the King book in question was Salem’s Lot, then you are a freakishly knowledgeable zombie geek…which means we’d probably get along pretty well.
4. Though billed as Howard Sherman in the credits.
5. According to Romero; a point our experts dispute, however.
6. 2006 by Permuted Press; it won the 2006 Bram Stoker Award for Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction.
7. Dr. Paffenroth is also the author of Dying 2 Live, a zombie novel published in 2007 by Permuted Press, and edited the zombie anthology, History Is Dead, 2008, also by Permuted Press.
8. Akiba ben Joseph (c. 50–c. 135 C.E.) is considered the father of rabbinical Judaism and is referred to in the Talmud as Rosh la-Chachomim (“head of all the sages”).
9. Winner of the 2003 Bram Stoker Award for the Best First Novel.
10. Monster Island and Monster Nation were published in 2006, and Monster Planet in 2007—by Thunder Mouth.
11. David Wellington is also the author of the vampire novels 13 Bullets and 99 Coffins, both published in 2007 by Three Rivers Press.
1. All legal definitions used in this chapter are excerpted by permission of the authors from The Peoples Law Dictionary: Taking the Mystery Out of Legal Language by Gerald and Kathleen Hill (MJF Books, 2002).
2. Andrea Campbell is the coauthor (with Ralph C. Ohm) of Legal Ease: A Guide to Criminal Law, Evidence, and Procedure (C.C. Thomas, 2002).
3. Played with great comic timing by James Karen and Thom Mathews.
4. Where euthanasia is permitted under certain circumstances.
5. Like the medical testing facility in our scenario.
6. Rex-84 (Readiness Exercise 1984) was a U.S. government plan to test their ability to detain large numbers of American citizens in case of massive civil unrest or national emergency.
7. Eden Studios, 2003.
1. Visit him online at www.exoticarms.com.
2. The first books were outlined by Edward Stratemeyer and his Stratemeyer Syndicate, and the actual stories were then written by ghostwriters under the house name of Victor Appleton.
3. The U.S. military employs the M26 model.
4. Taser specs provided by Taser, Inc., Rick Smith, CEO; Tom Smith, chairman. www.taser.com.
1. No, really, Romero had some fun with this in Dawn of the Dead.
2. A hybrid martial art (developed in 1947 by Adriano D. Emperado, Joe Holck, Peter Young Yil Choo
, George “Clarence” Chang, and Frank Ordonez) that combines karate, judo, jujutsu, kenpo, and kung fu. The name is an acronym for: ka (“karate”), ju (“judo”/“jujutsu”), ken (“kenpo”), bo (Chinese and American kickboxing).
3. The kissaki is the tip or point area of a Japanese sword.
4. The naginata is a long pole weapon with a sword-like blade at its tip; excellent for long-distance fighting; the nagimaki is a shorter version of the same weapon.
5. Dan is the Japanese term for an advanced degree or step, hence a fourth dan would be a fourth-degree black belt.
6. No relation to the monk of the same name.
7. Milla Jovovich uses one pretty effectively against zombies in Resident Evil: Extinction (2007).
1. Page One: Hit and Run (2006) and Page One: Vanished (2007) are both available from Arbutus Press.
2. Elaine Viets is the author of the Dead-End Job and Mystery Shopper mystery series from Penguin.
3. Currently Great Britain has five classifications of D-Notice situations: DA-Notice 01: Military Operations, Plans & Capabilities; DA-Notice 02: Nuclear and Non-Nuclear Weapons and Equipment; DA-Notice 03: Ciphers and Secure Communications; DA-Notice 04: Sensitive Installations and Home Addresses; DA-Notice 05: United Kingdom Security & Intelligence Special Services. Britain maintains an official website for D-Notices: www.dnotice.org.uk/index.htm.
1. Episode “Plato’s Stepchildren” (airdate 11/22/68).
2. Episode “Let That Be Your Last Battlefield” (airdate 1/10/69).
3. Duane Jones died of a heart attack in 1988 at age 52.
4. Francine was played by Gaylen Ross and Sarah by Lori Cardille.
5. Yvonne Navarro is the author of Hellboy (Pocket Star, 2004), Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Paleo (Simon Spotlight, 2000) and, Aliens: Music of the Spears (Spectra, 1996).
6. Cemetery Dance Publications, 2005.
7. Sam W. Anderson wrote “Swimming in the Sea of the Undead—A Look into the Soul of the Zombie Novel” for Insidious Reflections magazine.
8. KHP Publishing, 2004.
9. The “eyeball gag” became a signature scene for Fulci, and in many of his later films he found new and inventive ways to slice, dice, impale, and remove the eyes of various characters.
10. And, yes, despite its lack of scientific zombie grounding, I dig this flick, too.
11. The character of Alice was created for the movies and doesn’t appear in the games.
12. Created by Shinji Mikami and developed by Capcom.
13. David F. Kramer is coauthor, with Jonathan Maberry, of The Cryptopedia: A Dictionary of the Weird, Strange and Downright Bizarre (Citadel Press, 2007), winner of the Bram Stoker award for nonfiction.
14. Anton Szandor LaVey (April 11, 1930–October 29, 1997) was the founder and High Priest of the Church of Satan as well as author of The Satanic Bible.
15. Please note that the spelling of Mercyful Fate with a y and not an i is correct.
16. Speaking of which, visit www.myspace.com/zombiecsu and www.zombiecsu.com.
17. The d20 system, released in 2000 by Wizards of the Coast, is a set of game mechanics for RPGs, based on the third edition of Dungeons & Dragons.
1. First published in serial form in Home Brew from February through July 1922.
Jonathan Maberry, Zombie CSU
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