Estimating+time+of+death+CEW

1. a.The man died 5.3 hours later. b. A living body starts at 98.6 degrees. When the body was found, the body temperature was at 93.9 degrees. The body temperature of a dead body decreases at one degree per hour, the body would have died 5.6 hours prior to when it was found. c. The clothes can often accelerate rigor mortis causing the body to cool much slower.

2. a. The woman died 36-48 hours before her body was found. b. The livor mortis had set in by the time her body was found. The rigor mortis had stopped.

3. The livor mortis had set in and the rigor mortis had already stopped. This is how we know that it had been longer than 48 hours. There was nothing to alter the temperature.

4. a. Larva stage 1: 24 hours Larva stage 2: 60 hours Larva stage 3: 96-120 hours Pupa: 192-288 hours Adult: 432-576 hours b. The body had to have been dead for at least 96 hours because some of the insects were in stage 3.

5. This could not be the body because since the insects were in the pupae level, that particular body had been dead for at least 192 hours. The missing person had wandered away only 2 days earlier. (48 hours)

6. The body had been dead for 9 days because all of the insects were in the same stage.