‘Human body decomposition’ search carried out on a computer seized in Quirke house, court told

told prosecution counsel Michael Bowman SC that he examined computers, a thumb drive, an iPad, and a hard drive that were seized by gardaí during a search of Mr Quirke’s property in 2013.

Using forensic software called Encase he searched the contents of one of the computers which had no make or model and was registered to a “user” but not to any particular name. On December 3rd, 2012 there was a search on that computer for “human body decomposition timeline” and later another search for “rate of human decomposition”.

Following the searches Google returned a number of pages and Garda Fitzpatrick said there was evidence the user clicked on pages on websites environmentalgraffiti.com, forensics4fiction.com and suite101.com. When Det Garda Fitzpatrick looked at those pages he found articles headed: “The five stages of decomposition,” and “How the human body decomposes after death.”

Around the same time he said there was evidence of links to three Youtube videos but he couldn’t say if they had been watched. When Garda Fitzpatrick looked at the videos one was titled “Body Farm and Beyond” and the text associated with it stated: “Takes you on a tour of the body farm, which shows and discusses human remains, skin slippage and DNA analysis.”

The second Youtube video also related to the Body Farm and when Det Garda Fitzpatrick looked at it it was described as “a study of decomposition on real corpses” and contained the note, “you will never forget the smell.” The third video had been removed.

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