Fort Lauderdale ? The fake crime scene turned all-too-real for a high school criminology class in Fort Lauderdale.

The 29 students who fanned out at Holiday Park for their criminology teacher’s mock crime scene got a jolt Monday when they came across the body of David Wayne Bodie, 45, a homeless man who apparently died of natural causes.

“The first thing we thought was, ‘That’s a real good dummy she set up,”‘ said student Juan Cantor, 15.

“I think they kind of went into shock and disbelief,” teacher Sue Messenger said. “What are the odds that we would be out here?”

Messenger had been creating mock crime scenes with fake skeletons and other evidence for more than 20 years to give students in her forensics courses a firsthand look at what crime scene investigators do.