Section 8.2

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Post mortem artifacts

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Post mortem artifacts

Question 3

Hot dry place so the body will become what?

Answer 3

mummified

Question 4

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

Answer 4

True

Question 5

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

Answer 5

mummification

Question 6

Adipocere

Answer 6

Moistness

Question 7

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

Answer 7

true

Question 8

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

Answer 8

water in their lungs

Question 9

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

Answer 9

True

Question 10

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

Answer 10

autopsy

investigation

Question 11

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

Answer 11

autopsy

Question 12

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.

Answer 12

Autopsy

Question 13

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

Answer 13

True

Question 14

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

Answer 14

yes

Question 15

Dig up the body.

Answer 15

Exhumation

Question 16

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?

Answer 16

Exhumation

Question 17

______ 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.

Answer 17

Lincoln

Question 18

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

Answer 18

True

Question 19

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

Answer 19

True

Question 20

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

Answer 20

True

Question 21

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?

Answer 21

gun powder tattooing.

Question 22

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

Answer 22

True

Question 23

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

Answer 23

True

Question 24

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?

Answer 24

Makes the hole smaller than the bullet itself

Question 25

______ holes are more ragged then the _____ hole.

Answer 25

Exit holes are more ragged than the entry hole.

Question 26

_____ holes are nice and clear.

Answer 26

entry

Question 27

_____ holes are bigger and nastier

Answer 27

Exit

Question 28

two different kinds of knife wounds: 1. 2.

Answer 28

1. Stabbing | 2. cutting

Question 29

Manner of death is organ damage. True or False

Answer 29

True

Question 30

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?

Answer 30

compressible

Question 31

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

Answer 31

stabbing

Question 32

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

Answer 32

Cutting | cutting someone's head off

Question 33

Especially cutting wounds but sometimes stabbing wounds.

Answer 33

Defensive wounds

Question 34

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?

Answer 34

defensive wounds

Question 35

Hesitation wounds from _____ and defensive wounds from an ______.

Answer 35

suicide | attack

Question 36

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

Answer 36

Blunt Force weapon

Question 37

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

Answer 37

True

Question 38

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

Answer 38

True

Question 39

Die from lack of oygen.

Answer 39

Asphyxia

Question 40

Something is logged in your throat.

Answer 40

Chocking

Question 41

Is chocking usually intentional or accidental?

Answer 41

accidental

Question 42

Is drowning accidental or intentional normally?

Answer 42

Accidental

Question 43

Much easier than chocking to be a homicide?

Answer 43

Drowning

Question 44

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

Answer 44

Smothering

Question 45

Most often hangings are ______.

Answer 45

suicide

Question 46

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

Answer 46

True

Question 47

Similar to hanging

Answer 47

Strangulation

Question 48

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

Answer 48

True