the carpet itself. in fact, the defense s own expert, dr. furton, agreed that that process would render an odor from the carpet itself, submitted it to instrumental exam snags. now, both dr. vass and dr. furton agree that in this state of the science there is no signature set of chemicals that is indicative of only human decomposition. they both agree on that. all they can say, either one is that it s consistent. dr. vass, who has researched this more than anyone else says it s consistent, could it be from other sources, other things that were not found in the trunk? of course. but those things wouldn t smell like human decomposition. you could put together a coincidental group of chemicals to account for everything. you could throw in some gasoline, maybe throw in some