Section 8.2 Flashcards
Injuries, cuts or things that happen to the body to change it that happen after death.
Post mortem artifacts
Example, someone kills you and chops up your body after death.
Post mortem artifacts
Hot dry place so the body will become what?
mummified
The Ancient Egyptians are famous for making artificial mummies. True or False
True
When it is hot and dry and no animals can get to your body you naturally?
mummification
Adipocere
Moistness
Moisture can get waxy white build up on dead body, and that shows it has been in a moist place. True or False
true
You can almost always tell if someone drowned or not by what?
water in their lungs
Part of the process of decomposition is that it starts inside you. The bacteria that are eating you is the bacteria’s food. They give off gas and you get filled with air and that makes you float. True or False
True
When people die and it is not under the care of a Dr. they need ______ & _________.
autopsy
investigation
________ is the examination of a dead body by a medical DR.
autopsy
Do a Y incision on the chest cavity. Cut the skull to look at the brain. Toxicology to see what chemicals are in your blood. Entire medical investigation of your body.
Autopsy
You can decline an autopsy if it is not an obvious homicide. True or False
True
The family can request that there be no autopsy. Can the police get a court order to veto that?
yes
Dig up the body.
Exhumation
Depending on how long it has been down there it will have rot and decomposition. Pull them out of the ground and do what you need to do. This refers to what?
Exhumation
______ died and was buried and they dug up his body and held it for money they got caught and the family reburied it and dumped concrete over it and entombed it in a block of concrete.
Lincoln
Specific to contact wounds you can get distance and how far the gun was from the victim. True or False
True
Specific to contact wounds you can get the distance and how far the gun was from the victim. True or False
True
If the gun is in contact, you can tell that because a gun barrel in contact leaves a very distinct mark within a couple inches to feet you can get pretty accurate. Beyond 10-15 feet you cannot tell. True or False
True
Gun powder never burns 100%. If you shoot someone close a lot of the gun powder is going to hit their body and this is called what?
gun powder tattooing.
The closer it is if we know the caliber of the gun we can determine the amount of tattooing to determine the distance and the location the shot comes from . True or False
True
In general, the entry wound is nice and clean but because of the skin’s elasticity the entry hole is slightly smaller than the bullet that hits you. True or False
True
When you are trying to determine the caliber bullet someone was hit with you measure the hole and you add a % because the skin is elastic when you puncture a hole in it at a high speed it stretches and does what?
Makes the hole smaller than the bullet itself