CSI is a TV series that deals with criminal investigations solved by forensic investigators, detectives and coroners. While most of the content covered in the episodes is purely fictional, some chapters were inspired by real crimes that occurred around the world. Below, check out a list of five true crimes that inspired episodes of the CSI series.
1. Torch Song
On the night of January 27, 2013, an accident shocked the Brazilian population and the international media: a fire consumed a nightclub (Boate Kiss) in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, causing the death of 242 people and injuring another 630.
The event is considered criminal because the plant did not comply with a series of requirements necessary to prevent the tragedy; Additionally, an employee of the band playing at the venue started the fire using an inappropriate pyrotechnic instrument, and the victims were prevented from leaving the venue as the fire and smoke spread, among many other reasons.
That fateful night was told around the world and reached the ears of one of the producers of CSI, who inspired her to write episode 03 of the fourteenth season, entitled “Torch Song”.
2. Anatomy of a lye
In October 2001, in Fort Worth, Texas, a nurse was driving at high speed on a highway. Under the influence of drugs and alcohol, she hit a homeless man, but she continued on her way while the man was trapped in the windscreen. After leaving the vehicle, the homeless man suffered for hours, with severe bleeding, until he died. Chante Jawan Mallard, the driver, was tried and convicted of murder. The episode inspired by the crime can be seen in chapter 21 of the 2nd season of CSI, entitled “Anatomy of a Lye”
3. Meat market
In 2005, in New York, investigators discovered that the body of a corpse had been completely despoiled: its skin and bones had disappeared, leaving behind only the remains of what had once been a man. They immediately understood that it was an illegal trade in the sale of human organs.
The investigation uncovered a collaboration between undertakers, who collected material from corpses to sell to textile companies. Among the criminals tried, Michele Mastromarino was identified as responsible for the brutal operation. The crime is depicted in episode 14 of season 7, called “Meat Market”.
4. The I-15 murders
Between 1990 and 1995, a truck driver named Keith Jesperson killed several women in several states in the United States. The routine crimes consisted of killing the girls (and sometimes molesting them), writing a letter confessing to the crimes, and signing the text with a happy face. These letters were sent to the country’s media and police departments, who subsequently began investigating the events and nicknamed the criminal “Happy Killer Face”.
The story inspired by these events appears in episode 11 of the first season of CSI, entitled “The I-15 Murders”.
5. Overload
Candace Newmaker was 10 years old when she went to a therapist’s office in the 2000s. The practitioner took her work so seriously that he developed a technique called “rebirth,” in which the patient needed to die and come back to life to overcome their traumas . and become a new person. The woman wrapped her baby in a scarf from which the little girl had to free herself, but the “therapeutic method” led to severe asphyxiation which ended in her death.
In episode 03, “Overload”, of the second season of CSI, a scenario completely inspired by this crime is shown.
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