new unit 7 Flashcards
Antemortem
Injuries Before the killing of the body
Perimortem
Injuries During the killing
Postmortem
Injuries After the killing
5 Manners of death
HSANU…Homocide,suicide.accident,
natural,undertermined.
What is Algor Mortis
Comparison of body temperature to ambient temperature( Lose 1.5 degrees per hour)
Body disintegrates due to heat, moisture, bugs, scavengers, bacteria :
Decomposition
Full rigor moths is a ___ hours.
12
Muscles stiffen within 5 hors and release 24-36 hrs is:
Rigor Mortis
Skin discoloration due to blood pooling from loss of heartbeat and gravity is:
Livor Mortis ( body was moved)
How does ME identify the body?
wallet, fingerprint, dental,DNA, Anthropogical,Tattoos and scar marks,Family
First person to come up with ID system(Failed)
Bertillion
What is corpus delicti:
Body of crime scene
What is Modus operandi
Method of Operation (MO)
He was the first person to classify fingerprints in1897 and introduced it to US in 1903.
Sir Richard Henry
He said “ Every contact leaves its Trace”
Locard ( Locard Exchange Principle)
3 ways ME examines for time of death:
Rigor mortis, Algor mortis, entomology( life cycle of a fly is exact)
What is evidence collected from dead body?
trace ( hair and fiber), Clothing,Finger nail scrapings, blood, toxicology, bullets.
What was Bertillion’s measurement of bones called?
Anthropometry or Bertilliionage.
In which biome will a body decompose the FASTEST?
Tropical rain forest
In which biome will a body decompose the SLOWEST?
Cold Ice land
Why does the ME take hair samples and fingerprints off of an already identified victim?
The knowns ELIMININATE the victim from the crime scene.
What information can livor mortis provide?
time of death
