NT+and+MJ

1.a) the manner of death is the way someone can die.Natural, Accidental, Suicidal, Homicidal, and Undetermined. the cause of death is the reason someone dies. b) mechanism of death is a specific change in the body that brought about the cessation of life. the cause of death is the reason someone dies. c) larva is the immature form of an animal that undergoes metamorphosis, for example a maggot. pupa is the stage in an insects life cycle. when the larva forms a capsule around itself and changes into its adult form. d) livor mortis is when the blood settles in the body it starts immediately and last twelve hours it tells if the body has been moved. rigor mortis is the stiffening of the skelatal muscles after death starts within 24 hours and finished within 36 hours. e) autolysis is the spontanious breakdown of cells as hey self digest. decomposition is the process of rotting and breaking down 2) it was bloated because of all the gas carbon dioxide that is released by the bacteria living in the intestines that were not able to escape from the body. 3) you could use livor mortis to see if the body has been used at all. also there could be things on the clothing such as twigs or grass or other fibers not found in the city that could have attached themselves to the clothing or skin of the body and also any insects or their larva from the country. 4) it must have died within twelve hours previous to being discovered and rigor mortis begins in the head and the neck so it has not started to decline it was just starting and the whole body is stiff within twelve hours. over twelve hours and the head and neck would have started to loosen up so we would disagree with the time line. 5) the first insects to show up would be the blowflies because blow flies are attracted to two different gases of decomposition, putrescine and cadaverene. Tiny wasps come next because they lay there eggs on the maggots already present on the body. Then come the cheese skippers. They arrive when putrefaction is underway. They are attracted to seepage of body fluids. The group are those that favor dryer conditions such as mites and beetles that feed off dry tissues and hair.