Images of dead women flash across the screen in front of me, their brutalized bodies tossed like rag dolls into dumpsters and alleyways. At the front of the darkened classroom, Los Angeles County deputy D.A. Marguerite Rizzo scrolls through each photo in turn, highlighting relevant details with a red laser pointer. “As you can tell from this photo, just even looking at this, you see how much distention there is there,” Rizzo says, referring to swelling in one of the bodies. “So she’d been there for quite some time.” It’s a balmy Sunday afternoon, and I’m attending Esotouric’s latest Forensic Science Seminar, a quarterly series that delves into some of the city’s most infamous crimes with the help of veteran prosecutors and criminalists. The body…View Original PostThe post Inside the Forensics Seminars Where Laypeople Learn About L.A.’s Most Gruesome Crimes appeared first on Los Angeles Magazine.