11-4+Activity+ZW

Zach Walker Wynn Smythe Keaton Rye

Questions 1. A+B: around 2 hours…the corpse was found at 8 am with stiffness in the face and eyelids and the death chapter says that stiffness in the jaw happens in about 2 hours. C: No because the transformation takes place on the body

2. A+B: It has to have been dead for at least eight hours and up to because when Livor mortis takes place, lividity takes place between 2 to eight hours. 15-48 hours because the rigor mortis was not present because it had completely developed and it was post-livor mortis.

3. He could be dead for more than 48 hours because the rigor mortis was slowed due to the temperature of the body being low. There was no decomposition because there was no bacterial infection.

4. • egg: 0 days • larva stage 1: 1 day • larva stage 2: 2.5 days • larva stage 3: 4-5 days • pupa: 8-12 days • adult: 18-24 days B. • Some eggs and some larva stage 1: 25 hours • Some adults and some pupae: 20 hours • Some larva stage 2 and 3: 98 hours

5. No because he had been dead for 8 days and the missing person had been gone for 2 days. Blowfly pupae don’t appear on the body until at least 8 days post-mortem.

6. He would have to be dead for 9 days exactly because the chart says that the species would not all be there and alive unless it was exactly day 9 of death.