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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…
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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…
Badly decomposed bodies like the one shown here are typically not visually identifiable. I have no further info…
August 2016 - Italy. The police was called to a villa, following the reporting by neighbors of malodorous…
I colorized the original black and white images. Poland, 1999. A 26-year-old man killed his father by multiple…
This individual has stippling around the gunshot entrance wounds of the face, intermediate range, no further info. Stippling…
January 2017 - Pretoria, South Africa. A 76-year-old Caucasian man was admitted to a medico-legal postmortem examination after…
Four friends came from South America to vacation for a week (Probably Florida c.a. 2000). When one of…
A 39-year-old prostitute stabbed and beaten. Nipples cut off and “skinned” in pubic and perineal region. No further…
In these intraoral gunshot wounds, note the tissue tears extending from the sides of the mouth. These tears…
Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Police were summoned to a home of a woman who reported that there had been…
The head must be slightly raised with appropriate supports. There is no one correct device; each autopsy surgeon…
Mummification occurs in hot, dry environments. The body dehydrates and bacterial proliferation may be minimal. The skin becomes…
Destruction of most of the head from a contact shotgun wound with preservation of the avulsed brain (next…
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North Carolina, USA. The body of a white female, 33 years old, who had recently been laid off…
From the very little info I found, this happened in 2015 in Saudi Arabia, this guy had been…
Italy. When a 38-year-old policeman did not arrive at work and could not be reached by telephone, two…
In this particular case, the badly charred and burned remains of the victim of a kidnapping, rape, and…
This middle-aged individual was involved in an altercation with another male relating to the manufacture of amphetamines. Circumstantial…
This individual who was an alcoholic was found dead, and in the bloating stage of decomposition. The t-shirt…
This man committed suicide by cutting his throat while he was sitting on a bed opposite his own…
This deceased individual has multiple stab wounds on the back from the same knife, showing differing shapes and…
Detroit, MI. USA - A 21-year-old man was noted by family members to go into the garage behind…
The decomposing body of a woman was discovered in a bathroom in Indonesia, no further info. Putrefaction begins…
This individual died and was attacked postmortem by dogs, no further info. Postmortem animal depredation is a substantial…
This old man died and was then partially consumed by some mice, no further info. Postmortem animal interference…
This suicide shows the devastating result of a shotgun blast in the mouth, which resulted in the top…
Australia. A 69-year-old man was found lying on the floor at his home address(Fig. 1). According to the…
Note the bulging face with protrusion of the tongue on these decomposing individuals, all related to the decomposition…
Catastrophic disruption of the head after a distant range discharge. Homicide with a 30-06 Springfield rifle. Note petal…
Australia - 2016. Four elderly adults died in a light-plane accident. The light plane crashed into water. Male…
The partially clad body of a 22-year-old female, who had been beaten and sexually mutilated, was discovered in…
The catastrophic effect of an intraoral discharge. The head has completely opened up in a petal like fashion.…
Contact gunshot wound to the eye. Note the lacerations of the eyelid and eye globe with soot deposition…
Two vehicles collided in an intersection. Vehicle 2 collided with Vehicle 1 on the passenger side. A male…
New York, NY. This photo depicts a victim who has been smothered. She committed suicide by placing a…
Dearborn Heights, Michigan. Police officers were summoned to a residence to check on the welfare of a man…
Australia. This elderly male individual was significantly decomposed and not visually identifiable. Postmortem CT showed a metal orthopedic…
