1. Never touch anything. Ever. Not if you're committing a crime...not if you've just walked into a crime scene...not if you've just realized that someone has committed a crime against you. Don't even think about touching anything. And even if you're absolutely sure that you haven't touched anything, you still probably have.

2. Bugs are REALLY cool! They're the good guys. And the fact that they're usually found eating your rotting, dead flesh is a good thing!

3. Coroners are EXTREMELY and weirdly de-sensitized to the sight of bodies in any shape and condition. Enough so that they can eat and drink while looking at one.

4. People never ever tell the entire truth. It doesn't matter whether they're innocent or guilty. They're always hiding something, either because it makes them seem guilty (and they are) or because it makes them seem guilty (and they aren't).

5. Be thankful for DNA. It's the end-all be-all of every investigation, it's itty bitty, and it's everywhere.

6. No matter where you put a body, someone is always going to find it. And it doesn't matter if you bury it in sand, concrete, or dirt. It also doesn't matter if the body is chopped up and spread about, left on the side of the road, or burned entirely from head to toe.

7. There are tons of really cool gadgets out there that can identify blood, DNA, minerals, fingerprints, spores, fiber-type, and pretty much anything else that's in microscopic form and floating around a crime scene. And once blood gets on something, it's never leaving. They can always find it. Even years later.

8. Defense attorneys really are assholes. They always show up just when the suspect is about to tell everything and instruct them not to say another word.

9. Whoever you think is the killer, usually isn't. And whoever you are sure isn't the killer, usually is. Unless they're trying to throw you off, then the one who isn't is, and the one who is isn't. OR, it's neither of them and it's someone entirely different.

10. That job really really really really really really really sucks sometimes. Like when they find a kidnapped and murdered baby lying in the bushes, and have to fend off the hysterical mother.