Green+C+R29-41

Ramsland page 29-41


 * __Death Investigator__: medical examiner or coroner
 * DI's have to know the difference between accidental erotic fatality and suicide
 * DI's have to know body removal protocol
 * Death investigation involves how it occured, when it happened, and what caused it
 * Death 5 categories: natural, accidental, suicide, homicide, undetermined
 * Body discovery scenes categories: buried, exposed, subnerged in water
 * DI's examine body and make notesand diagrams
 * DI decides of there will be an autopsy
 * To decide TOD: body temperature (algor mortis), discoloration (livor mortis), rigor mortis, ocular indicators, food digestion, personal factors, decay/decomposition rates
 * Entomology: field that studies the stages of insects and offer leads to low enforcement officers
 * Insect activity can help: show that a body has been moved, specimens for toxilogical or drug analysis, DNA materials from insect ingestion contents, suporting or contradicting alibis, when wounds were made to a body