Ramsland+29-45+RAL

Handling Bodies have to have a five year residency with at least one of year of training in a medical examiner's office How it occured, when it happened, and what caused it five categories of manner of death - Natural -accidental - suicide -homicide -undetermined Time of death is hard to discern sometimes unless there is a witness who looked at their watch at the time it happened unless they go into rigor or anything else estimate of time of death are: Body temperature Discoloration Rigor mortis ocular indicators food digestion personal factors decay/decomposition rates

left alone in a warm and moist climate a body can decompose to a skeleton within a few weeks while in other conditions it could take months and even years Insect activity can help to show and provide many details on the body and within the body -showing that a body has been moved -serving as specimens for toxicological or drug analysis -providing DNA materials from insect ingestion contents -supporting or contradicing an alibi -assessing when wounds were made to a body

an autopsy is a postmortem examination of a corpse to determine manner and cause of death for an official report they can be partial, selective, or complete but most are partial sometimes they have to unbury someone if they have found new reason to beleieve the cause of death is otherwise than already pronounced Injuries are in difffernet categories -blunt force injury -gunshot wounds -knife wounds