Professor Angelique Corthals of the Department of Sciences set up a crime scene in the composting area of the park near the 102nd street entrance after receiving a permit from the Central Park Conservancy to perform the exercise. “The permit process took a few months. I wanted to make sure we could perform it without damaging any of the landscaping of Central Park,” said Corthals. “The composting facility was a perfect place to organize this, as it is not landscaped and it’s vast enough to hide a body.”
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