Protecting Turtles, Correcting Manners and Solving Crime

from investigating underwater murders to shredding illegal fruits these staunch detectives act behind the scenes to solve some of the world's most unusual crimes the Secret Service is more than black sunglasses earpieces and two-piece suits they're also an elite team of investigators solving some of the nation's biggest crimes sometimes using nothing more than a blot of ink here we are the lobby of the Secret Service these were the only authorized shots we could get upstairs in the lab we got to see all the high-tech machines analysts use in forensic investigations they have names with things like 8,000 after them so you know they're complicated did you film a printer I did the lab includes people like Trista who specializes in handwriting analysis to investigate threat letters or ransom notes Jeffery investigates fraudulent items like IDs traveler's checks credit cards and Irina she works in the International Inc library my name is Irina Guymon I am a document analyst with the United States Secret Service the Secret Service has the largest ink library in the world there are over 12,000 inks are currently in collection this includes pens bottled ink and printer cartridges basically this team of scientists is using ink to help solve crimes their ink vestigators no don't do that okay so here's an example someone writes a threatening letter to the president Irina will sample that ink and then compare it to her collection exactly she can figure out what kind of ink was used and hopefully it helps solve the case here's another ink sample no give me that script the most counterfeited banknotes within the United States is $20 and it's printed with ink up which means somebody takes they're very simple at home printer and decides to print money Irina can compare the counterfeit currency to any printers found at the scene of the crime and help make a match okay time for a little science here's what you need 12,000 samples of let's be honest mostly black ink a lot of the black inks and they're just black they're actually a collection of different color components that could be a blues and reds and yellows maybe a little bit of green Irena Ken for lack of a better term sequins black ink liquid DNA and find the exact breakdown of color that's how she can make a match so what appear is black at a first glance is actually extremely different on the inside and it's really fun as a chemist to be able to take the ink apart and see how it's made I'm a nerd at heart I love the chemistry oven I love the mystery of salvation case I just really love what I do so it may not look exactly like it's on TV but it's really fun to be in a lab and to be able to do any analysis and to be able to help and assist all the law-enforcement agencies that I work with daily so Irina can you give us any more examples it's on a need-to-know basis and you did not need to know well it looks like this case is all dried up I've been threatening by Haiti with Voodoo over food I've taken mangoes from passengers from Jamaica and been threatened with my life never a dull moment here at JFK make it easier that's it the reason why we're confiscating all this stuff is not because it's harmful to the human being it's harmful for our plants and our animals this is a big port last month we processed a 1.5 million passengers you figure between fruits and vegetables we're talking about two or three hundred kilos a day in just one terminal so you're talking about four to six hundred pounds what kind of foods are you confiscating every day is different every season is different Chinese New Year Christmas Easter we have beef candy from China serrano ham from Spain we have lots of avocados salami from Italy no Pedro I take the back so let mr. primo that's Spain Spain also once the food item is seized it's put in what we call the contraband bin we drag a contraband being across the terminal it's about a block long get a little exercise and begin the process of grinding up all the prohibited food items we're at the grinder table that officer will look and see if there's any little exit holes entry holes and that's what you're gonna find the insect do you enjoy that part of the process is it kind of a stress reliever for you of the grinders great sometimes they go home with a little bit of mango juice and passion fruit juice on it just happened fun the water splashing in your face but this is what we have to do to protect American agriculture is part of our job [Music] there's a crime detectives follow the clues they get close but then they reach the water so they call in the underwater criminal investigator that's Mike berry hold on this is Mike berry I dive in very strange places looking for very strange things Mike has been an underwater criminal investigator for 35 years how easy is it to get rid of a murder weapon all it is is a flick of the wrist and someone's mind that murder weapon is forever gone they have no idea there are people like me crazy enough to go down here search law enforcement depends on guys like Mike to preserve and recover evidence your three cores in underwater Criminal Investigation is body recovery vehicle recovery and evidence recovery I get called about twice a week sometimes more sometimes less and when a call comes in chances are Mike's in for a challenge some of these locations are absolutely disgusting our typical dive site is dark it's deep it's cold it's full of obstructions it's contaminated the danger is there when you get in the water you know I've had murderers tell me you know you'll never find it I said well we'll see there's nothing like finding the target when your hand hits it and you feel it and you realize you've got it for a public safety diver there's no greater thing and when he's out there searching for a body I look at it as an honor because you realize the importance of what you're asked to do there's a family and there's no closure until you bring them up you know not every diver can do this not everybody has it in their DNA it's what I was meant to do I couldn't think of anything better to do with my life truth is I can't wait for the name all to help someone in some way either to bring closure or to bring a conviction fancy going shopping no no no wish live in the Burlington Arcade who you we are to Berlin some Beatles probably the oldest and smallest police force in the world you could say that we police your manners right okay tell us your story the beetle story starts before we get into that what actually is a beetle to be honest with you I think anybody really knows we predates any police force in the country right back to the story go ahead mark the beetle story started at this arcade okay and it games you know so it's just like a shopping center right yes okay third time lucky go ahead mark the beetle story started on the 28th of March 18 19 London was very different people didn't really trust the water so they drank even gin oh yeah and obviously that Lisa was so startled behind you so the Beatles role really was to keep all the within the arcade and in fact that tradition has carried on right away for you to buy our uniforms are made up of several different layers we first of all put on our way Scouts in our frog pose announce our pants from the summer or the autumn in the winter you will still put on your waist coat you will then put on your cape and you're sort of half the original rule was here were no whistling because the pig pockets would whistle signals to one another no drunkenness play a musical instrument you're not suppose to hurry some gents unlike an unladylike carry your own parcels do you mustn't bring a bicycle and the company ladies by the way weren't all allow them a lot of those rules we couldn't be enforced it we still try to enforce them they hurried in we still try to enforce the low wisdom it's all about behavior as long as you're respecting those around you and respecting the arcade you'll be left alone and I put this uniform on I represent nearly 200 years worth of history makes me immensely proud yeah when I say it's a no attire if I'm one in spirit that's actually true but it isn't just the you know the spill these are sea turtle eggs and there are two ways this situation can play out there's either or there's so how can we make sure this doesn't end up like this well take a look again these aren't your ordinary sea turtle eggs these eggs could one day take down an entire poaching network the story of these eggs starts in Ann Arbor Michigan hi I'm Kim Williams Qian and I am a conservation ecologist Kim does research on a wide variety of animals but we're here to talk about endangered and threatened sea turtles with sea turtles in Central America there's an issue of poaching of the nests for consumption of the eggs and so her team has developed a unique solution to gather more information about the poaching trade fake eggs with GPS trackers we can hide these fake turtle eggs in sea turtle nests our hope is that these eggs will get poached along with the others and transmit information on their locations where is it that they go after they're taken from the beach but for this to work the fake eggs have to be convincing they have to have the right feel because sea turtle eggs are kind of a little soft and squishy they're not like chicken eggs we've been using a 3d printer and a kind of flexible plastic but they still don't look quite right and this is when our story moves to Los Angeles hello I'm Lauren and Lauren works in Hollywood my day to day job as I work on set as a makeup artist which could be beauty makeup prosthetics creature design wigs blood so it made sense for Lauren to help Kim make fake eggs we needed these eggs to look realistic feel realistic and so that's kind of where I've come in it was like the best way that I could use my skills making prosthetics but to actually like help a whole species of turtles this is like it's a dream job after months of revisions it's time to put these eggs to the test in Costa Rica hi again you remember Kim she's here to deploy the eggs herself on a protected conservation area this is a place that's very special because it's a very important nesting site [Music] tonight a sea turtle will come and I can test out putting the false sea turtle eggs in the nest not only will this project provide Kim's team with valuable information on poaching she and Lauren hope it will inspire others as well wildlife poaching can be abstract or too depressing to even think about something about this project kind of captures people's attention here's this very simple unique solution that I think then serves as a jumping off point for people's imaginations to learn more about this trade all of us working on this project are just doing it in our our weird little nooks and wherever we can and it just goes to show there's so many little ways that everyone can help you don't have to be making fake turtle eggs to make a difference you can make a difference in your own way you [Music]

Channel: Great Big Story

Views: 603,696

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Keywords: great big story, gbs, lag, documentary, docs, Great Big Reels, New Releases, Human Condition, Crimes, Crimesolvers, Criminal, Investigation, Investigators, Crime, Detective, Police, Law, Murders, fruit, legal, illegal, behind the scenes, secret service, ink, DC, counterfeit, rules, pickpocket, underwater, sea turtles, conservation, eggs, Manners, England

Id: guNIspzci4k

Length: 12min 55sec (775 seconds)

Published: Wed May 20 2020