Student Gains Real-World Exerience by
Interning at Medical Examiner's Office
By Alex Davis University of Pittsburgh ’11 Jazmine Kunes has become acquainted with death. From May through July, the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford criminal justice senior interned at the Allegheny County Medical Examiner's Office in Pittsburgh. That included tasks like pulling prints from corpses and watching autopsies. “One thing that was shocking to me was the first violent death I had seen,” the 21-year-old Ridgway student said. “A body had come in that was a suicide, and, up until that point, I had never seen a violent death. Until I went to this internship, I had never even seen a dead person.” Much of the work included spending time in the latent print lab, using a chemical called ninhydrin to pull prints. Kunes also used automated fingerprint identification systems to try to find a match of an unknown print through state or country databases. She also learned about dusting and lifting prints. “The scientists...
