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Section 8.2 Flashcards

1
Q

Injuries, cuts or things that happen to the body to change it that happen after death.

A

Post mortem artifacts

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2
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Example, someone kills you and chops up your body after death.

A

Post mortem artifacts

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3
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Hot dry place so the body will become what?

A

mummified

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4
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The Ancient Egyptians are famous for making artificial mummies. True or False

A

True

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5
Q

When it is hot and dry and no animals can get to your body you naturally?

A

mummification

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6
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Adipocere

A

Moistness

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7
Q

Moisture can get waxy white build up on dead body, and that shows it has been in a moist place. True or False

A

true

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8
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You can almost always tell if someone drowned or not by what?

A

water in their lungs

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9
Q

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

A

True

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10
Q

When people die and it is not under the care of a Dr. they need ______ & _________.

A

autopsy

investigation

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11
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________ is the examination of a dead body by a medical DR.

A

autopsy

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12
Q

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.

A

Autopsy

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13
Q

You can decline an autopsy if it is not an obvious homicide. True or False

A

True

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14
Q

The family can request that there be no autopsy. Can the police get a court order to veto that?

A

yes

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15
Q

Dig up the body.

A

Exhumation

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16
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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?

A

Exhumation

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17
Q

______ 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.

A

Lincoln

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18
Q

Specific to contact wounds you can get distance and how far the gun was from the victim. True or False

A

True

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19
Q

Specific to contact wounds you can get the distance and how far the gun was from the victim. True or False

A

True

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20
Q

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

A

True

21
Q

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?

A

gun powder tattooing.

22
Q

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

A

True

23
Q

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

A

True

24
Q

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?

A

Makes the hole smaller than the bullet itself

25
Q

______ holes are more ragged then the _____ hole.

A

Exit holes are more ragged than the entry hole.

26
Q

_____ holes are nice and clear.

A

entry

27
Q

_____ holes are bigger and nastier

A

Exit

28
Q

two different kinds of knife wounds:
1.
2.

A
  1. Stabbing

2. cutting

29
Q

Manner of death is organ damage. True or False

A

True

30
Q

Example, stabbed in the heart could be what kills you but most of the time it is blood lose. 5 inch knife it would go maybe 6 inches because the body is what?

A

compressible

31
Q

With a ________ knife wound it can be deeper the the weapon is long.

A

stabbing

32
Q

99.9% due to blood lose. The only time it would not be is when?

A

Cutting

cutting someone’s head off

33
Q

Especially cutting wounds but sometimes stabbing wounds.

A

Defensive wounds

34
Q

Example, if you come at someone with a knife they will try to fight you off so the person with the knife ends up cutting a few other things like the arm. What type of wounds are these?

A

defensive wounds

35
Q

Hesitation wounds from _____ and defensive wounds from an ______.

A

suicide

attack

36
Q

Baseball bats, rocks, lead pipes. Could also be laptop, chair, phone.

A

Blunt Force weapon

37
Q

When you are investigating a blunt force trauma homicide it can be difficult to find the weapon or it may be right there in front of you and hard to see. True or False

A

True

38
Q

Bruises tend to grow much larger than the things that hit you. True or False

A

True

39
Q

Die from lack of oygen.

A

Asphyxia

40
Q

Something is logged in your throat.

A

Chocking

41
Q

Is chocking usually intentional or accidental?

A

accidental

42
Q

Is drowning accidental or intentional normally?

A

Accidental

43
Q

Much easier than chocking to be a homicide?

A

Drowning

44
Q

Not as common as you would think. Much more difficult but they do happen and they leave certain signs.

A

Smothering

45
Q

Most often hangings are ______.

A

suicide

46
Q

Relatively common to find people who died in suicide in a hanging whose feet are touching the ground;. Hung themselves and the rope stretches and they drop. True or False

A

True

47
Q

Similar to hanging

A

Strangulation

48
Q

Murder someone and hang them up to make it look like suicide the investigators can tell by the mark made by the rope that it was not suicide. True or False

A

True

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