Chapter 5—Wired Knowledge:

When They Let a Murderer Loose on the Internet

Footnote 5.1:

Ronnie Crocker, “Executed killer lives as computer image,” _Houston Chronicle_, December 18, 1994, page A1.

Footnote 5.2:

To be technical, these weren’t true physical slices, just images taken of the remaining surface as researchers ground down Jernigan.

Footnote 5.3:

From an essay that Chris Gazunis wrote in a 1994 contest sponsored by the National Center for Education Statistics, the NASA K-12 Internet Project, and the National Science Foundation.

Footnote 5.4:

Randy Hammer was another contestant in the competition that Chris Gazunis entered.

Footnote 5.5:

Peter West, “Wired for the future,” _Education Week_, January 11, 1995. The senior analyst quoted was Kathleen Fulton.

Footnote 5.6:

The University of Colorado got a great package deal. While I couldn’t rate Helen according to her medical knowledge, she appeared to know her computer imaging cold.

Footnote 5.7:

Not to confuse detachment with callousness. In Pelster’s place—working with the cadaver day after day, not just writing about him—I’d have coped the same way.

Footnote 5.8:

The Associated Press quoted Oxford and Nelson.