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Fig.5 Incomplete decapitation with severe damage of the head and exenteration of the brain.

Accident

Incomplete decapitation with exenteration of the brain

Fig.1 This victim’s body was found indoors during the summertime.

Decomposition

Putrefaction indoors in summertime after 60 hours since death

Fig.1 Oval to round cutaneous defects caused by crustaceans postmortem on the neck and upper trunk in a drowning victim.

Accident Animal Scavenging Drowning

Postmortem animal depredation by crustaceans

Fig.1 This 52-year-old woman has a contact gunshot wound of her right temple.

Gunshot Suicide

Contact gunshot wound of her right temple

Fig.1 Morbidly obese bodies require special lifting devices to be handled in the morgue.

Decomposition

Morbidly obese bodies require special lifting devices

Fig.1 Diptera larvae collected from the ocular cavity of a cadaver in active decay.

Decomposition

Diptera larvae collected from the ocular cavity of a cadaver

Fig.1 Skin burns on a victim of lysol suicide.

Suicide

Skin burns on a victim of lysol suicide

Fig.1 Greenish white molds on the forehead, right side of the cheek, perioral, and perinasal areas, and anterior part of neck, and chest.

Decomposition

Fungal growth on a corpse

Fig.1 Contact wound, between the eyes from a .357 Magnum revolver.

Gunshot Suicide

Contact wound between the eyes from a .357 Magnum revolver

Fig.1 Contact blanching on the back of the body depicting a pistol.

Decomposition

Contact blanching on the back of the body depicting a pistol