Dead reckoning

Poking around in corpses in search of bugs is not everybody’s cup of tea. But Gail Anderson, a professor of criminology at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia and one of only a dozen certified forensic entomologists in North America, does it for a living. She even finds it fun. Her job is to discover how and when somebody died by looking at the insects on their body. She is also an expert in murder victims that end up in water. Nicola Jones asks her about life and death at the deep end, and finds out why she’s been…