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Handling Bodies 5 categories of manners of death - Natural ( died in an environment not considered hostile) - Accidental (fell victim to a hostile environment) - Suicide ( caused own death) - Homicide ( someone else caused the death) - Undetermined

- a noncriminal homicide might be a killing justified as self-defense

TIME OF DEATH 1. Body Temperature (algor mortis) - bodys cool at a rate of 1 to 1.5 degrees per hour unless effected differently by the surrounding temperature. 2. Discoloration (livor mortis) - also known as lividy. if dead body is laying on back then back will have lividy. lividy is the body turning purple. 3. Rigor Mortis - muscles stiffen 4. Ocular Indicators - happens if eyes are open after death. makes eyes look cloudy. Takes longer if eyes closed 5. food digest 6.Decay - stages of the body decomposing. Changes depending on time dead

Insect involving death

1. Showing that a body may have been moved 2. Drug analysis 3. Providing DNA materials from insect ingestion contents 4. Supporting or contradicting an alibi 5. Assessing when wounds were made to a body

Autopsy - shows what happened to body - helps solve what killed it and where on the body