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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…
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…
