Episode 602 - Dead Body Dogs

We meet Los Angeles County Firefighter/Paramedics Nick Bartel and Eddie Ruiz who have the additional gruesome task of handling Human Remains Detection K-9’s (aka Cadaver Dogs). The dogs are used both in murder investigations and recovery efforts. Bartel and Ruiz were sent to the island of Maui to help find human remains from that deadly wildfire in August of 2023. The firefighters walk us through how the dogs are trained to focus in on decomposed flesh and even bone marrow. Bartel and Ruiz also give candid first-person accounts of the carnage and devastation they experienced searching for remains around the historic town of Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii. This is part of Unsolved’s ‘Crime Fighter Series’.

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Episode 602 - Dead Body Dogs is an episode from Unsolved with Steve Gregory by KFI AM 640 (KFI-AM).

This episode is 66:02 long.

This episode was published on Nov 19, 2023.

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