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Under the headline, "Dog Called in as Eyewitness for Murder," the Korea Times ran an article last week about the Seoul police using the pet dog of one of three murder victims to solve a two-month-old case. That notion was referred to as "a last-ditch but unsuccessful attempt to identify the suspects." The dog was thought by police to have been an eyewitness to the crime, and they sought to sort out murder suspects using an "Animal Language Translator," but failed to connect the translated language of the dog to the identification of the suspects.
The three victims were found dead after a fire on April 6. After police found that the three had been repeatedly stabbed, they suspected that the fire was lit by the murderer(s) to cover up the crime. They had been trying to locate the dog since the fire, as possibly their last hope to find clues, and finally found it living with one of the neighbors. They tried to understand the dog's behavior when it was confronted with murder suspects, using an "animal language translator," a person who is said to be able to interpret the body language and other behavior of animals. This investigation method, they thought, is known to be widely used in the United States — a claim unfamiliar to me, but perhaps based on the popular US "pet psychic" show. That show always amazes me, because the "psychic" has to ask the owner the pet's name! Of all the words that any pet hears, it's the pet's own name that is surely the best-known and most easily recognized by the animal. Why don't they just ask the beast?
When this line of investigation failed, they decided that the dog's memory of the incident had already faded. Said a police spokesman, "The result might have been different, had it been a breed of dog with relatively higher intelligence.''
http://www.randi.org/jr/060603.html
The three victims were found dead after a fire on April 6. After police found that the three had been repeatedly stabbed, they suspected that the fire was lit by the murderer(s) to cover up the crime. They had been trying to locate the dog since the fire, as possibly their last hope to find clues, and finally found it living with one of the neighbors. They tried to understand the dog's behavior when it was confronted with murder suspects, using an "animal language translator," a person who is said to be able to interpret the body language and other behavior of animals. This investigation method, they thought, is known to be widely used in the United States — a claim unfamiliar to me, but perhaps based on the popular US "pet psychic" show. That show always amazes me, because the "psychic" has to ask the owner the pet's name! Of all the words that any pet hears, it's the pet's own name that is surely the best-known and most easily recognized by the animal. Why don't they just ask the beast?
When this line of investigation failed, they decided that the dog's memory of the incident had already faded. Said a police spokesman, "The result might have been different, had it been a breed of dog with relatively higher intelligence.''
http://www.randi.org/jr/060603.html
