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.