Forensics

What are five manners of death?

• Alcohol, backpack, accessories, natural, cars

• Drugs, suicide, overdose, chemicals, substances

• Cancer, diseases, natural, nature, rain

• Natural, accidental, suicide, homicide, accidental

What is the normal body temperature in Fahrenheit?

What is mechanism of death?

• Reason of someone’s death

• Advanced decaying

• Specific change in body that brought cessation to life

• The process of dying

What is the most common manner of death?

• Drugs

• Alcohol

• Diseases

• Natural causes

What causes rigor Mortis?

• Muscle spasms

• Diseases in the muscles that causes the body to explode

• Because the muscles aren’t relaxed from no oxygen and the build up of calcium in the muscles

• Cooling of the body temperature and the gravity around you

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Cold temperature will slow rigor Mortis

• True

• False

• Maybe

• It depends

A skinny body will go the the process of rigor Mortis faster than an obese body?

• True

• False

• It depends on the weather

• Depends on the clothing

Define putrefaction:

• Stiffening if muscles

• Process of decaying

• Reason of death

• Gases produced build, which gives a body distended appearance

What are some characteristics of Active Decay

• Maggot masses, foul oder, much fluid and mass tissues through purge and insects. Usually coyotes , foxes, or lions.

• Ending of advanced decay, Lots of masses

• Many types of insects and the drop of temperatures

• Soil staining and lots of maggots migrating away with eggs in body

What are some characteristics of Advanced Decaying?

• This is the end of active decay, soil staining, maggots will migrate from body to pupate, flies will cease laying eggs

• Mass tissues

• Many eggs from flies and larvae’s from maggots

• A strong Oder from the decaying body and the masses of insects including flies and maggots