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A 29-year-old man was fishing when his canoe turned over and his body submerged. The body was recovered…
Spain. This is probably a case of autoerotic activity or masochism, where the victim appears to have hanged…
Spain. This individual killed himself with a shotgun. He had just killed his father, who had terminal cancer.…
Cologne, Germany. The body of a 66-year-old man was found by his wife wrapped up in plastic garbage…
Nassau County, New York. This individual has a stellate-shaped contact wound to the head, stippling, and soot deposit.…
The body of this male had been in the water for approximately one week. Notice the effects of…
Nassau County, New York. This badly burned body had been dumped at an outside location where animals fed…
Cadaver decomposition island is the area of concentrated decomposition fluid surrounding decomposing remains. Associated with active decomposition is…
Early postmortem predation by a dog with bite marks evident at the edge of the soft tissue defect.…
Between 1989 and 1996 three women were sexually assaulted, strangled, and killed in Yonkers, New York, by an…
The individual in the images received the injuries postmortem by a domestic dog, cause of death unknown. No…
This individual suffered a fatal head crushing injury from a moving train, no further info. Railroad deaths in…
This individual suffered a fatal head crushing injury, no further info. A crushing brain injury causes damage to…
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Knox County, Tennessee, USA. Police were called to a home residence in connection with an unresponsive man. His…
Associated with putrefaction is the production of gases. These gases, primarily located in the abdomen, cause the body…
Xiangzhou, China - 2014. The body of a woman was found in a sack by a sanitation worker…
In December 2007, the body of a man was found on the waterfront of a lake in the…
Slovakia. A newly widowed 79-year-old man was found dead in front of the garage of his family home,…
The first type of insect to arrive at a dead body is usually a blowfly (Calliphoridae), attracted by…
Decomposition, or putrefaction, is a combination of two processes: autolysis and bacterial action. Autolysis is the breakdown of…
Mexico City, Mexico - February 9, 2020, a woman was brutally murdered by her partner who skinned and…
Moderate to marked putrefaction. Identification may sometimes be challenging with advancing decomposition. This individual had a tattoo on…
Spain. Destruction of the facial skeleton due to shotgun blast. No further info. Shotguns differ from rifles and…
This individual fell from a height and suffered fatal destruction of the head with a loss of a…
New Delhi, India. The incident took place in one of the guest houses in the city. The deceased…
This individual has a contact-range gunshot wound on the forehead. No further info. In contact gunshot wounds with…
Pasadena, Texas, 1975. The nude body of 22-year-old Deborah Elizabeth Hester was found strangled in her apartment. She…
Larimer County, Loveland, Colorado, USA. The decedent and one employee were trimming trees on private residential property. The…
Australia - This middle-aged male individual was assaulted in his home. When the individual was located his ankles…
This individual suffered a fatal head crushing injury, no further info. A crushing brain injury causes damage to…
October 1998 - Bellingham, Washington, US. 20-year-old Keri Lynn was visiting relatives in Bellingham, Washington, and she had…
Decomposition of the entire body, including discoloration, skin slippage, bloating, mummification of lower arms, legs, and thighs, and…
Note the bulging eyes, lips and face with protrusion of the tongue on this decomposing individual, all related…
This individual has a shotgun shot wound. A large central defect is surrounded by smaller shotgun shot wounds…
South Korea. A 53-year-old man was found dead on the roof of a freight elevator car installed on…
C.a. 1995. This individual died during autoerotic activity, it is possible the individual was inhaling some chemical inside…
Destruction of most of the head from a contact shotgun wound. There was no further info about this…
Australia. This male individual died from sharp-force injuries to the chest and left wrist in the setting of…
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This body was recovered after fourteen days in a well-heated residence. The necks of the teeth display ‘pink’…
Naberezhnye Chelny, Tatarstan, Russia - November 2020. A 65-year-old worker died at the KAMAZ PJSC factory when he…
This man died after choking on scrambled eggs which can be seen draining out of the mouth, no…
February 14th 2000 - Mendig, Germany. Following routine maintenance, a Sikorsky CH-53G military helicopter was returned to service.…
A 40-year-old woman was found dead in her apartment lying supine on the bed and the upper trunk…
Contact wound of the right temple with evisceration of the brain. Note soot at the entrance site. In…
This woman was shot in the face at close range with a bullet from a 30.06 rifle in…
New York - Stab wounds into the victim’s back made with a large bladed knife. No further info…
Chicago, Illinois. The victim of a lust murder, who had been stabbed multiple times in the chest with…
Dumped body (Illinois State Police case Highway 64). Animal scavenging on face and left arm. This victim was…
This individual died and was attacked postmortem by a cat, no further info. Postmortem animal depredation is a…
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This victim fell off a tractor and sustained severe chop injuries when he was overrun by the chopping…
Spain. Middle facial injury with cranial rupture caused by shotgun blast. No further info. Despite the extreme amount…
Pontiac, Michigan, US. On Tuesday, July 11, 1995, the nude and battered body of Margaret Midkiff, a 43-year-old,…
Germany. A 45-year-old woman committed suicide by hanging herself in her bathroom. The string was attached to the…
Indian River County, Florida, US. On July 26, 1983, David Alan Gore and his cousin, Fred Waterfield, were…
If I had a dollar for every time I've received a notification of a violation of a content…
Homewood, Alabama, US. On March 9, 1990, Homewood Police responded to a report of a murder from the…
In some contact rifle wounds of the head, the entrance may be difficult to locate because of the…
In contact gunshot wounds with bony tissue underlying the injury, the injuries are typically called a stellate wound,…
Poland. A grandmother found the corpse of her grandson in an apartment in a block of flats in…
This individual placed a 12-gauge shotgun against his right temple and pulled the trigger. As can be noted,…
India. This individual died when he was hit by a train, no further info. In 2020 more than…
Los Angeles. A murder case showing sex-related mutilation. No further info about this case. A lust murder is…
Dallas, Texas, US. This image shows multiple injuries on a young adult female from an attack by three…
Swelling of the scrotum and abdomen occurs with putrefaction as gases accumulate from bacterial action. Numerous maggots can…
Bodies removed from water show excessive gas production and tissue discoloration, owing to explosive bacterial gas production. The…
Australia. This elderly woman was located in a state of advanced decomposition. Because of decomposition the body was…
Township of Van Buren, Michigan. Police received an anonymous call reporting a body of a female in an…
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Composite facial allografts have become increasingly popular in the reconstruction of complex…
Czech Republic. A 39-year-old man was discovered dead in the bathroom of his house, hanging by the neck…
Germany. On a rainy September day, a 32-year-old man was working on a 50-m (164 ft) high Ferris…
A hard-contact wound of the head with the central entrance wound containing a marginal abrasion, soot, and searing…
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The image is of a body at the bodyfarm at The University of Tennessee Anthropology Research Facility. The…
Toronto, Canada. A 34-year-old intoxicated male was found dead in his apartment. On scene inspection, the deceased body…
South Korea. Loosely translated from Korean. The deceased is a 48-year-old man who had been suffering from schizophrenia…
Skeletonization of the head, neck, and the left hand due to animal predation in a body that was…
South Korea. Most cases of ligature strangulation are generally homicides, and deaths due to suicide or accident are…
Extreme case of sadomasochism. This man inserted large dildos into his anus and with the trapeze-like contraption could…
This individual has a 12 gauge single-shot shotgun wound to the side of the head. Found supine on…
Italy. An 83-year-old man, killed by his son, was found dead in the dining room of his apartment,…
Decomposed sclera showing hemorrhagic discoloration of the whites of the eyes. This is sometimes misinterpreted as true injury.…
Vandalia, Ohio. On June 22, 2013, an airplane carrying wing walker Jane Wicker crashed at the Vectren Dayton…
A body was dumped in a wooded area near Los Angeles. By the time it was discovered about…
In this case, police and scene investigators were suspicious that this individual was killed by blunt force injuries…
On February 21, 1997, at approximately 4:09 p.m., the Pottawatomie County, Kansas, Sheriff’s Department took a missing person’s…
This individual committed suicide by shooting himself in the head with a hunting rifle, no further info on…
Billings, Montana - This 66-year-old man committed suicide after being told he had cancer. The entrance of the…
The woman in this photo passed away, and an animal in the household started to eat her face…
Decomposition studies have elucidated many different factors affecting the rate and process of decomposition. However, no study has…
A typical area of carnivore activity centered around the mouth of a decedent can be seen in this…
November 2017 - Belo Horizonte, Brazil. A 57-year-old female was found dead in a room in the residence…
South Korea. Loosely translated from Korean. The deceased was a 61-year-old unemployed woman who lived alone. The mother…
The woman shown in the images was trying to open the electronically controlled iron gate by reaching through…
