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Time of death:
 * DI makes an informed guess at the approximate time when the individual expired.
 * body temperature
 * after death bodies stop breathing, so without oxygen they cannot maintain the normal temperature of 98.6 degrees.


 * Discoloration
 * dark purple color of the body
 * it appears about one to two hours after death and becomes fixed within eight to ten hours.


 * Rigor Mortis
 * bodies go limp, but within 15 minutes to 15 hours accumulating waste products stiffen the muscles.


 * Ocular indicators
 * if eyes remain open after death a thin film forms on the surface. Eyes will begin to look cloudy.


 * food digestion
 * this depends on the time a person digest its food and metabolism.
 * personal factors
 * decay/decomposition rates
 * when the heart stops beating, the skin pales and starts to look waxy.

1. showing that a body may have been moved. 2. serving as specimens for toxicologial 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.