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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…
This individual received the injuries postmortem by rats, cause of death unknown. No further info on the case.…
Italy, 2014. A 41-year-old Spanish professional scuba diver, died while he was working to clear the wreck of…
Seoul, South Korea. The victim, a 46-year-old male dentist, was found dead of ligature strangulation next to a…
Chicago, Illinois. This photo illustrates decomposition, skin slippage, lividity, and marbling. No further info. Skin slippage is something…
A series of murders occurred in Washington State in 1990. The murders began in Bellevue, Washington, in June…
Decomposition: extreme tissue discoloration and gas formation in a body removed from water. Bodies removed from water show…
Forensic entomology is the study of insects as they relate to death investigation. For example, fly larvae can…
Spain. This individual died after ingesting poison. The injuries were inflicted postmortem by a dog. No further info.…
An elderly male was found dead, slightly decomposed, lying on a couch with a pair of scissors protruding…
This victim’s throat was slashed. No further info about this case. Slash wounds occur as a result of…
This male individual was driving when an LPG cylinder(Liquefied petroleum gas), which was in the front passenger side…
This victim shot himself under the chin with a shotgun creating this classic massive tissue destruction. No further…
This male individual placed an explosive detonator in his mouth. There was extensive destruction of the bone and…
This individual was found in the Northern Adriatic Sea, near Italy. No further info. Many times it is…
Spain. This middle-aged woman with major depressive disorder committed suicide by train. No further info. Suicide by collision…
Woman’s body lying face down in a bathtub in an advanced state of decomposition and with no apparent…
East Lake, Ohio. Police who had responded to an emergency call discovered a woman named Susan murdered in…
A contact shotgun wound of the lower chin. Note the stretch-type lacerations of the right side of the…
There was no info about this case, so here's just some general info: At close range, the shotgun…
Chicago, Illinois. This victim was inhaling an unknown chemical substance while practicing autoerotic activities. He was wearing a…
This individual shown here had been dead approximately two weeks in an unheated, unventilated room. Note the extreme…
This individual has died after a self-inflicted gunshot to the head, no further info. The head is the…
![Fig.1 The body at the scene. Decedent lying on his right side, covered with a blue plastic bag; below the bag also the upper part of 5-L propane/butane gas bottle. [Colorized]](https://i0.wp.com/www.hermantheshocker.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/001-3-1.jpg?resize=600%2C403&ssl=1)
A 30-year-old male was found fully dressed lying on his right side on his sofa in his flat.…
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, US. On November 3 1998, a man and a woman encountered a gunman on the front…
Grand Prairie, Texas - The victim’s throat was slashed by her assailant during a sexual assault and murder.…
A 52-year-old man was found dead, already putrefied, in his apartment. He wore women’s underwear with a female…
