LIsa Black
Cape Coral, FL
Female, 49
I spent the five happiest years of my life in a morgue. As a forensic scientist in the Cleveland coroner’s office I analyzed gunshot residue on hands and clothing, hairs, fibers, paint, glass, DNA, blood and many other forms of trace evidence, as well as crime scenes. Now I'm a certified latent print examiner and CSI for a police department in Florida. I also write a series of forensic suspense novels, turning the day job into fiction. My books have been translated into six languages.
I have no idea. You'd have to ask the review board. Since statistics are just numbers, how do you know it's not included?
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Not much free time, no. There's always work to do.
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Yes. I've never heard it mentioned that certain things don't show up until later.
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I got a little queasy at my very first autopsy, but since then, no.
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I like doing both, because being in the lab all the time can get tedious, but being at crime scenes all the time can get exhausting.
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Gunshot is the most common, then bludgeoning, then stabbing.
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First of all, no teacher should ever tell you you're 'not smart enough' for a field.
Second, not all forensic work involves a great deal of biology--really only DNA analysis and serology do. Toxicology will require a good chemistry background. But specialized fields such as latent prints, crime scene investigator, questioned documents, digital evidence, ballistics and impression evidence would use little to no biology.
If a formal degree becomes a problem, you might want to see if you can start out in an Evidence/Property area and work up from there.
Best of luck!
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