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They have to find out 1) How the death occurred 2) When it happened 3) What caused the death Manners of death: 1) Natural 2) Accidental 3) Suicide 4) Homicide 5. Undetermined DI has to take the individuals body temperature to find time of death, therefore, a body should not be moved until he/she examines it. All childhood deaths and those not of natural causes are examined Body discovery scenes outside are categorized by how the body was found 1) Buried 2) Exposed 3) Submerged in water Handling the body: It gets removed by lifting and wrapping in clean white sheet; placed in body bag for transport, body temperature taken twice at the scene via the liver, ear, or rectum; once refrigerated at morgue temperature becomes retarded. Inaccurate science 1) Body temperature: without oxygen the bodies temperature goes down, weather affects it, more body fat the slower the temperature decreases, clothes can insulate corpse, drugs can raise temperature 2) Discoloration: Lividity is caused by the cessation of the heart's pumping action, which allows the red and white blood cells to separate. Red blood cells settle to lowest parts; occurs one to two hours after death; if found not at closet parts to ground then the body has been moved 3) Rigor Mortis: Immediately after death bodies go limp; waste products stiffen muscles, head and neck area the body loosens up. Hot temperature speeds up this process 4) Ocular indicators: Thin film appears on open eyes; potassium content from breakdown of red blood cells making eyes look cloud; closed eyes do same thing but at slower rate; temperature does not affect it so it is a more realiable process. 5) Food digestion: Has many factors. 6) Personal factors 7) Decay/decomposition rates: Factors that affect rate are climate and insects Insects and their activity can also help in: 1) Showing that a body may have been moved 2) Serving as specimens for toxicological or 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 __Entomology__: field that studies the stages of insects and offer leads to low enforcement officers
 * Death investigator**- medical examiner or coroner; has to be certified from the American Board of Forensic Pathology; must know protocal of body removal and which deaths need to be investigated; they do their own examination of the body and do sketches before it gets removed from a scene; decides if there is an autopsy which occurs for an unattended death and for a homocide
 * Time of Death**