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I don't have the backstory from this case but here's some general info. At close range, the shotgun…
Case scenario April 2019 - Mönchengladbach, Germany. Two men had met on a bus and after a conversation…
India. This individual was beheaded when he got hit by a train, no further info. In 2020 more…
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Maryland, USA. The unusual position of the body at this scene resulted from the deceased experiencing a heart…
Serbia. A 63-year-old mechanic, diagnosed with schizophrenia, was released from a psychiatric clinic to spend a weekend with…
Asbest, Russia - A 27-year-old resident of the city of Asbest died when a car he was a…
This individual has an extensive destruction of the head, I don't have the details of what happened, I…
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The corpse of this individual was found in his apartment, the deceased is partially clothed and partially covered.…
Grinding and compression forces can cause crushing injuries of tissues. This form of injury may cause total or…
A 28-year-old man was driving a car at a speed of approximately 80 km/h (49.7 mph) on a…
This individual died from natural causes while taking a bath. Dark-yellow and brown discoloration can be seen due…
This victim shot himself under the chin with a 7.62 calibre rifle creating massive tissue destruction, no further…
A 77-year-old woman in the Czech Republic committed suicide by train. The face of the woman was reconstructed…
Note the bulging eyes, lips and face with protrusion of the tongue on this decomposing individual, all related…
This woman died after getting hit by a train. Her right arm got amputated along with bruising of…
A 54-year-old man was found dead on his bed next to a red shoehorn. Perhaps he just wanted…
Skeletonization is the total or partial loss of soft tissue (complete or incomplete skeletonization, respectively) with resultant exposure…
Marked putrefactive change with dark brown discoloration and maggot feeding. Note the small circular perforations caused by maggots…
Germany. Translated by Hermantheshocker. The bodies of a 27-year-old woman and a 44-year-old man were found lying entwined…
This woman was decapitated after committing suicide by hanging. The image was in black and white and I…
Animal predation is less commonly seen than insect predation. Because most putrefied bodies are recovered from a home…
This woman was shot it the neck, note the defense wounds on her left hand from trying to…
US - 28 July 2005. A Westchester County man died Thursday afternoon in a crash on Route 287.…
Australia. This case demonstrates the death of a 69-year-old male which has occurred in the setting of a…
An extreme example of facial splitting from an intraoral discharge. Conspicuous splitting is noted along the paranasal and…
This individual was found in the Northern Adriatic Sea, near Italy. No further info. Many times it is…
Germany. This 70-year-old man committed suicide by gunshot to the forehead. He was found kneeling by his bathtub,…
Homicidal cut throat, showing single slash with no tentative cuts. Clean-cut edges with no sign of repetitive strokes,…
Germany - On New Year's Eve, a 33-year old hobby pyrotechnician sustained a lethal craniofacial trauma secondary to…
Head injuries from shotguns and high-powered rifles are typically quite devastating, often with extensive soft tissue destruction, skull…
Sacramento, California, USA. On December 29, 1977. A 51-year-old man, who had exited his house to retrieve groceries…
This individual committed intraoral suicide with a shotgun. The shotgun wound resulted in extreme facial splitting from the…
March 18, 2003 - Bonn, Germany. A lethal occupational accident occurred at the Bonn Salierweg sewage treatment plant…
This individual died after getting attacked with a broken bottle that slashed his neck, no more info. A…
Newport, Rhode Island. The body of a man who overdosed on methadone has gone into gross decomposition. No…
2010 - Montana, US. This 25-year-old man apparently was known to have been drinking into the early morning…
This decomposing individual died of natural causes while sitting in a warm tub. Note the bloating from putrefactive…
Germany. A decomposed body was found hanging from a tree in a forest. The body belonged to a…
Huntington Beach, California. The victim was a white male, 37 years of age, living alone in a large…
Pachuca, Mexico. This happened about ~10 years ago. A woman died when she fell into a rotating machine…
Note the bulging eyes and face on this decomposing individual, all related to the decomposition process. No further…
India. A 24-year-old woman was traveling in a bus with her child and husband, she was seated on…
This individual was murdered and stabbed with various kitchen utensils, no further info about this case. The general…
This individual was found mummified in a locked room 10 weeks after death. The corpse is dry and…
An elderly male pilot was flying a microlight aircraft with one middle-aged male passenger in the rear of…
The individual in the picture has a tangential distant gunshot wound produced by mag-safe ammunition (prefragmented). I don't…
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Nassau County, New York - Suicidal stab wound into a female victim’s chest with the knife left in…
India. A young man aged about 26-year got married a couple of years back, he used to maintain…
In mid-November 2010 a hunter walking on the Po river bank near Parma (Emilia-Romagna Region, in the north-east…
Image from NYPD Crime Scene Unit. In this case a person's body had become fatally impaled on a…
Columbus, Ohio. The victim was a 22-year-old male, who reportedly had been experimenting with asphyxial recreation for a…
This 55 year old male was fatally crushed by a concrete culvert. He suffered from compound skull fractures,…
This individual received the injuries postmortem by rodents, cause of death unknown. No further info on the case.…
Brazil. A 38-year-old man was found dead in his house, already in a state of decomposition, with no…
Mishawaka, Indiana, US. In the fall of 2011, the badly injured body of a 65-year-old male was found…
Blast injury. The suicide victim detonated one kilogram of TNT on his chest. No further info. Explosive-caused injuries…
Germany. Complex suicide of a 31-year-old man following the attempted killing of his 29-year-old partner. Atypical hanging in…
Note the bulging eyes, lips and face with protrusion of the tongue on these decomposing individuals, all related…
Australia. This middle aged male individual was located at home in an advanced state of decomposition. Postmortem CT…
1994 - Rheine, Germany. A Chinese hand grenade type 86 P (weight approx. 290 g, approx. 1600 steel…
Krönlein shot indicates a prolapse of an intact brain hemisphere or, more rarely, of both brain hemispheres in…
Germany. Self-inflicted gunshot to the forehead with a shotgun. The scalp is torn open in several long stretches;…
This individual was ejected from a motor vehicle and fatally impacted a fence at a high rate of…
Germany. A 39-year-old metalworker was found dead in his workroom. He had manipulated a model cannon with jackscrews…
2011 - Portage, Indiana, USA. A 19-year-old woman named Amanda A.B. was reported missing by her father on…
Multiple lacerations to the back of the head in a homicide with a primary attack from behind. The…
This individual committed suicide by fastening cable ties around his neck, leading to suffocation. Each cable tie was…
Flash suppressors generally consist of a cylinder, having a number of longitudinal slits along its length that is…
Wausau, Wisconsin, USA. This individual shot himself in the head with an upward trajectory. The man was determined…
Figs.1-2 Advanced skeletonization of the skull after 1 week of lying on the ground in the woods in…
Australia. The remains of an adult male found in a river after a crocodile attack. The head had…
A middle-aged male was driving a semi-tractor with an attached trailer in heavy fog. On approaching a sharp…
Intensive blue color of mouth and lips in a case of suicidal intoxication with solvents. No further info…
I colorized the original black and white images. The United Kingdom, ~1980s. The deceased was an unmarried 32-year-old…
The decomposition of the gastrointestinal tract results in a dark, foul-smelling liquid called "purge fluid" that is forced…
In Germany, a 65-year-old woman told police that she killed her 71-year-old husband the previous evening and then…
Contact-range discharge to the left side of the neck (12 G shotgun, homicide). (left image) Exit site on…
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April 1995 - East Wenatchee, WA, USA. A young woman discovered the bodies of her mother and sister.…
Initially, it may be difficult to distinguish the entrance and exit wounds, but by loosely reconstructing the skull…
Although putrefaction is a mainly anaerobic bacterial reduction process, decomposition is dominated by aerobic microbiological processes that may…
Hobbs, New Mexico, USA. This was the view that the arriving police officers had when they responded to…
This photograph illustrates the devastating effect of a high-powered weapon placed into the mouth of a suicide victim.…
I have no info on this case but it looks like he may have survived. Head injuries from…
The woman in this photograph committed suicide with a box cutter by severing the peroneal artery, which is…
I colored and upscaled the original low quality black and white image, quality is rather poor. Chopping wounds…
Cuyahoga County, Ohio, USA. This individual committed suicide by intraoral gunshot wound to the head, no further info.…
This individual was involved in a fatal high-velocity accident resulting in facial trauma with loss of skin, soft…
Moderately early changes of decomposition, showing gaseous distension of the breasts and abdomen. Skin slippage, marbling, and blistering…
Spain. The photos are of a victim of homicide with an axe. This is a case of homicide…
King County, WA, USA. The face of this woman shows typical postmortem animal scavenging injuries, in this case…
King County, WA, USA. This woman was found dead at her residence. She has been stabbed multiple times…
This individual killed himself with a gunshot under the chin creating a massive tissue destruction. Facial disruption can…
On Halloween night, 1979, at approximately 10:30 p.m. Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris abducted their final victim, 16-year-old…
Spain. This is a case of gender-based violence and murder, with the perpetrator subsequently killing themselves (i.e., murder-suicide)…
There was no information with this image, I assume it's a homicide rather than a suicide, but I…
