Death Investigations Forensics

the specific body failure that leads to a person's death

• mechanism of death
• decomposition
• manner of death
• cause of death

one of five means by which someone dies

• death

• manner of death

• cause of death

• mechanism of death

the process of rotting and break down

• rigor mortis
• decomposition
• livor mortis
• putrefaction

An child dies after being kept from receiving proper health care by her guardians. The manner of her death would be:

• natural

• accidental

• homicide

• undetermined

the stage in an insect's life cycle when the larva forms a capsule around itself and transitions into its adult form

• instar
• pupa/pupae
• larva/larvae
• death

the study of insects as they pertain to crime scene investigation

• putrefaction
• forensic pathology
• forensic entomology
• forensic anthropology

the cessation, or end, of life

• instar
• pupa/pupae
• death
• putrefaction

the immediate reason for a person's death

• death
• mechanism of death
• cause of death 
• manner of death

The cooling of body temperature after death is:

• algor mortis
• livor mortis
• rigor mortis
• pallor mortis

This occurs 2-4 hours after death, where the blood pools due to gravity. The area affected is a bluish-red color.

• rigor mortis

• algor mortis

• livor mortis