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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-CA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Some time ago, the Royal British Columbia Museum (Victoria, BC, Canada) palynologist Richard Hebda was asked to examine the shallow grave where the crime victim was buried. He found a lot of pollen of Ocean Spray (Holodiscus discolor), both under the body and above it. At that time, the Royal BC Museum still kept phenological records at the site close to the crime site and Richard was able to narrow down the time of the crime within a week or so. I don’t know if it helped to solve the crime.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Adolf Ceska, Victoria, BC, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> native-plants [mailto:native-plants-bounces@lists.plantconservation.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Kwong, Olivia<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, April 27, 2015 7:20 AM<br><b>To:</b> native-plants@lists.plantconservation.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [PCA] NEWS: Solving Crimes With Pollen, One Grain Of Evidence At A Time<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>This isn't about North American plants, but it's an example of the interesting paths that botany can take.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.npr.org/2015/04/25/402031990/solving-crimes-with-pollen-one-grain-of-evidence-at-a-time">http://www.npr.org/2015/04/25/402031990/solving-crimes-with-pollen-one-grain-of-evidence-at-a-time</a><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Solving Crimes With Pollen, One Grain Of Evidence At A Time<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>April 25, 2015 5:19 PM ET<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>NPR Staff<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Some murder cases are harder to solve than others. The investigation into the killing of Mellory Manning -- a 27-year-old woman who was assaulted and murdered in 2008 while working as a prostitute in Christchurch, New Zealand -- confounded police.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>See the link above for the audio and full article text.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>