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Postmortem protrusion of the tongue due to putrefactive gas formation and purging of putrefactive fluid from the nostrils.…
Maggots are the larval form of flies. Flies lay their eggs in small and sometimes large bulky clusters…
Texas, USA. These photos illustrate the appearance of a crime scene indoors involving a high velocity weapon. The…
September, 2016 - Israel. A 65-year-old surveyor was killed at a work site to widen Road 531 in…
San Rafael del Yuma, Dominican Republic - 2019. Janel Aquiles Cedano de León, a 35 year old teacher…
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Brazil - 2019. A 34-year-old woman died in a head-on collision with a truck on the PR-323 highway…
Thailand. A 40-year-old taxi driver broke in to the apartment of his ex-wife and set it on fire,…
Bangkok, Thailand - 2014. A 28-year-old Russian woman, Svetlana Pokasova, was killed after she fell from her room…
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was a scheduled passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur that was shot down…
A 71-year-old man was found dead in his locked apartment in a prone position on the floor of…
This individual was found in a state of advanced decay, he had committed suicide by hanging. No further…
Skeletonization is the removal of tissues from the skeleton or bones. It may be complete where all soft…
Madrid, Spain. Corpse of a 48-year-old woman, found in the bathroom in her home address, in a bathtub…
Germany. In March of 2007, a 50-year-old man was fatally injured when his single-engine low wing propeller aircraft…
2005 - Italy. A young man was found dead in the garage of his house. Extremely poor hygiene…
Russia. This individual has multiple cut wounds and slash wounds on his face. No further info. Slash wounds…
Maggots cause most of the body's decomposition because the maggot will do the majority of the eating. Maggots…
Suicide by train. Decapitation of the head. No further info. Unfortunately, suicides by train do occur, and they…
USA. A planned complex suicide. Note the gun on the floor near the decedent’s feet. The victim had…
2001 - Ventura County, California. The decomposed body of an elderly male was found floating in the ocean…
This individual died from a gunshot wound to the head. No further info. The head is the most…
Nassau County, New York. The body of a homicide victim recovered from the waters with the hands still…
This man had a fatal accident and has suffered traumatizing injuries on his face. No further info. Soft…
These remains were found in a ditch along a gravel road, at the edge of a National Forest.…
The body of a 39-year-old man without any history of drug abuse or illness was found in a…
An elderly woman with schizophrenia presented with a pair of scissors penetrating her left orbit and an enucleated…
Twin brothers committed suicide together with a gunshot wound to the head from self-constructed shooting devices, they were…
Spain. This individual committed suicide by suffocation with a bag and cable ties. After placing the bag over…
Body of a 42-year-old male found dead in the steam room approximately 8 hours after having gone alone…
Spain. Injuries caused by multiple projectiles (shotgun), with submental entry hole and exit with cranial rupture. No further…
Here the surgeons have performed a mock facial transplantation by harvesting total facial-scalp flaps from a donor and…
San Fransisco, US - 2008. This individual had died and his body scavenged by animals postmortem, no further…
This individual fell from a great height and died. He suffered from crushing facial injuries and crushing brain…
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Clothing on a drowning victim will alter the buoyancy and the progression of decomposition. It may also be…
This male individual lost control of his glider shortly after take-off and flipped upside down. The glider then…
This individual shot himself under the chin from a 12 gauge shotgun and walked 10–15 ft to his…
This woman was hit by a train and killed, no further info. In 2020, 1.331 significant railway accidents…
Norway. In June 2003, a small Mazda 232 automobile was involved in an accident. In a sharp left…
Spain. A 59-year-old man was discovered dead in his home, he was suspended by a harness and a…
This individual committed suicide by an intraoral gunshot wound. In the tremendous force imparted by the expulsion of…
Maggots cause most of the body's decomposition because the maggot will do the majority of the eating. Maggots…
This woman was murdered and dismembered, and her face peeled off. No further info. Fig.1 The woman had…
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Note the bulging eyes, lips and face with protrusion of the tongue on this decomposing individual, all related…
Hungary. A man received an email from his 51-year-old brother that he was planning to commit suicide. He…
Virginia, US. A 57-year-old white man with a history of depression and prior suicidal ideation was found lifeless…
US. A 20-year-old white man was found dead by his father in the subject’s bedroom, reclining in a…
Covington, Kentucky, USA - 2017. “I thought it was a prank because there was this body hanging out…
A rare case of homicidal double cut throat – on front and back. There is also a deep…
Germany. A 71-year-old man was found lying on the road at a village junction (30 km/h zone) with…
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Body in stages of black putrefaction apparent in extensive mottling, the draining of purge fluid,…
Wayne Township, New Jersey. This case involved an 87-year-old male who was discovered after police went to his…
This individual committed suicide by fall from height, no further info. A crushing brain injury causes damage to…
Germany. A 22-year-old woman who had suffered from anorexia for 10 years and had collapsed several times was…
This body was exhumed 5 years after death. Decompositional changes (putrefaction, mummification, and adipocere formation) are fueled by…
This individual was found dead in water. Postmortem activity by eels were discovered on the body. Such injuries…
USA. This 18-year-old man died in a motor vehicle crash with rollover and ejection. No further info. Rollover…
This individual died after shooting himself under the chin with a hunting rifle. No further info. Head injuries…
~1990s - A 48-year-old landlord’s wife suffering from chronic depression committed suicide with a band saw by amputation…
A 25-year-old woman had moved in with her 34-year-old boyfriend 3 weeks earlier. The brother of the boyfriend…
In this intraoral shotgun wound, note the tissue tears extending from the sides of the mouth. These tears…
2006 - Belo Jardim, Brazil. The Police was called to a residential unit located in the rural area…
The phenomenon of postmortem animal interference with human bodies or their remains is a substantial part of the…
Many times it is difficult to make a physical identification of the victim’s bloated body recovered from the…
Iceland. A 28-year-old man was reported missing by his mother. He had a medical history of depression, for…
I have sadly no information about this one. Found in teaching material from the Office of the Armed…
No info about this case. The wounds produced by this mechanism are chopping, cutting, penetrating injuries produced by…
Colombia - November 2003. Six police officers died in a road explosion by guerrilla group FARC. According to…
USA. Self-inflicted injuries on a prison inmate who hanged himself after writing "Satan is coming take me home"…
A young man in Brazil was found hanged and decomposed in the forest, he had been missing for…
Spain. Mummified body of a woman preserving her facial features, weighing 13 kilos. Mummification occurs in hot, dry…
In Sri Lanka, a 76-year-old female was found dead in her house lying supine on the bed and…
Occasionally, the fragile orbital roofs and ethmoid bone are so severely fractured as to allow pulpified brain tissue…
Decomposition of the gastrointestinal tract results in a dark, foul-smelling liquid called "purge fluid" that is forced out…
Spain. This middle-aged man decided to end his life using a shotgun. No further info. Head injuries from…
Spain. This individual committed suicide by hanging, with possible change of mind and attempt to remove the ligature,…
The individual in the images received the injuries postmortem by a domestic dog, cause of death unknown. No…
Maggots cause most of the body's decomposition because the maggot will do the majority of the eating. Maggots…
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This decomposed man was found in the prone position, having collapsed to the ground face first near his…
The premise that exit wounds are larger than entrance wounds is a generality only. A man was found…
Post-mortem decomposition showing varying degrees of putrefactive changes in the face, trunk and extremities. The image shows the…
Poland. The body of a 36-year-old man with multiple torso wounds was found by the police in the…
Maggots are the larval form of flies. Flies lay their eggs in small and sometimes large bulky clusters…
A middle-aged female pedestrian died after accidentally stepping in front of a moving bus. The cause of death…
Autopsy facial dissection is a procedure that involves the careful dissection and examination of the facial structures of…
Spain. Mummified body with cobwebs in the oral cavity. No further info. Mummification occurs in hot, dry environments.…
This middle-aged male individual was located in a burnt-out car with a knife protruding from his neck. This…
February 2020 - San Vicente, Venezuela. The body of a woman was found inside a refrigerator in a…
The little info I have on this one is that she was fatally shot by her son's friend…
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Suicide by shotgun: entrance wound in the mouth and facial major lesions. It has been clearly established that…
France. A 24-year-old man was found dead by his father lying on the ground in his yard, facedown,…
March 2016 - Belo Horizonte, Brazil. A 37-year-old man was found dead by his father at his residence…
