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 * notes for ramsland reading (page 29-41)**

entomology: field that studies the stages of insects and offer leads to low enforcement officers

death investigator: medical examiner or coroner. their job is to learn about death they need to know: 1) how it occurred 2) when it happened 3)what caused it.

manner of death (categories explaining death): 1) natural (died in an environment not considered hostile) 2) accidental (fell victim to a hostile environment) 3) suicide (self caused death) 4) homicide (someone ele caused death) 5) unknown

unattended death: when person died in place other than hospital, hospice or wards

notes on DI: - must record corpses body temperature - must investigate all childhood deaths, those not natural - must record information of scene 1) Buried 2) Exposed 3) Submerged in water

Time of death: though never precise, a TOD can give helpful clues to investigators. they record time of death by documenting the following aspects. 1) Body temperature 2) Discoloration 3) Rigor Mortis 4) Ocular indicators 5) Food digestion 6) Personal factors 7) Decay/decomposition rates

Insects can guide a crime scene by: 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