Table of Contents

Preface TIME OF DEATH (POSTMORTEM INTERVAL) AND DECOMPOSITION Time of Death Introduction Rigor Mortis Livor Mortis Body Cooling (Algor Mortis) Scene Investigation Chemical Analyses Gastric, Microscopic Analyses Decomposition Adipocere Mummification Anthropophagia IDENTIFICATION Positive Identification Visual Identification Fingerprints Dental Radiographs (X-rays) DNA Fingerprinting Presumptive Identification Physical Features Clothing and Other Personal Property Circumstances Surrounding Death Skeletal Remains REFERENCES Case Examples Case 1 - Differential Decomposition Discussion Case 2 - Time of Death Case 3 - Gastric

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Jay Dix

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"The volumes are appropriate reading for death investigators, law enforcement officers and attorneys…Physicians-in-training would benefit in such specialties as Pathology, Emergency Medicine and Surgery…I anticipate that the remaining volumes in this series will prove equally useful."
--Laurence R. Simpson, Jr., M.D.-Forensic Pathologist, Michigan State University
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