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Article: Redlands police officer participates in National Forensic Academy exercise
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- Redlands Daily Facts
- Article date:
- August 22, 2005
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Rick Dysart, an officer with the Redlands Police Department, took
part in a recent University of Tennessee National Forensic Academy
training exercise that combined the elements of a simulated plane
crash, real bomb detonations and a trail of drugs and murder.
The exercise was made possible by internationally acclaimed author
Patricia Cornwell.
Dysart and 15 other NFA students worked into the afternoon July 20
at UT's Forest Research and Education Center in Oak Ridge, Tenn. They
pieced together parts of a puzzle a mock drug deal gone bad and a
complicated crime scene that served as their final exam.
Cornwell arranged for a helicopter to lift an aircraft fuselage
and drop it 150 feet into ...