County Medical Examiners A Brief Discourse Of Wound Ballistics
Terminal wound ballistics: the science of flesh-colliding
projectiles
Gaping buckshot cavities disgorge chewed tissue
gurgitations
Hydrostatic displacement frees milky intestinal chyle
My forensic team probes for splintered bullet
fragmentations
Hollow point horrors with mushrooming penetration
Entrance and exit wounds are matched during post mortem
examination
Propellant-tattooed wound sites paint blood-spattered
stories
Portraits in zigzagging bullet trajectories
Scorched carbonaceous holes yield range estimation clues
Bullet paths plotted with metal dowels and radiographs
Full-jacketed slugs ricochet and birth deliquescent
steaming stews
Recovered rounds are collected by my alacritous staff
