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Article: Learning the Telling Details of Crime; Md.'s First Forensic Academy Graduate Brings Knowledge Home to Frederick
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- The Washington Post
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- December 28, 2003
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Shooting liver in a box was fun. So was blasting the blood-filled
pumpkin, torching houses, blowing up cars, scavenging for bones and
digging up bodies.
Not to mention wasting the dummy.
"I got to blow this guy up," Wendy Ann Martyak said cheerfully,
showing off pictures of her time at a small, extremely competitive
out-of-state school.
And there he is: The Dummy, just standing there in the hills of
Tennessee, oblivious to the over-the-top carnage that has been
unfolding on all sides. Then -- poof -- he's gone.
But the dummy is, in fact, a mannequin, which happened to be
outfitted with a belt of explosives to simulate a suicide bomber. And
the stomach-turning slide show is like a ...