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Constance Swander began her career as a serologist back when blood samples had to be tested by hand and results took days instead of hours.
After a half-century in laboratories around
the state and advances in forensic science playing an ever-widening role in crime solving, she s preparing to hang up her lab coat on Tuesday.
It has been, she said, a real-life game of Clue, with flesh-and-blood suspects instead of Colonel Mustard and Miss Scarlet. She s analyzed evidence from crime scenes and has testified more than 300 times as an expert witness on cases ranging from murder and sexual assault to fatal car crashes.
Mafia (sometimes known as
Werewolves Within. Helmed by CollegeHumor veteran Josh Ruben (who recently starred alongside
The Boys Aya Cash in
Scare Me), the horror-comedy unfolds in the isolated and snowy town of Beaverfield. When a blizzard traps the residents inside a local inn for the night, they need to find out which one of them is a bloodthristy lycanthrope before it s too late.
As the frigid evening wears on, the collective paranoia reaches a fever pitch, putting viewers in mind of a certain incident at a certain U.S. research outpost in Antarctica back in 1982. I thought of Wilford Brimley in [John Carpenter s]