Drowning
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This individual committed suicide by drowning because of financial worries. Bodies removed from water show excessive gas production…
If a body is placed in water containing a large amount of bacteria, such as that from sewage…
On 26 December 2004, at 07:58:53 local time, a major earthquake with a magnitude of 9.2–9.3 Mw struck with an epicenter off the west…
Toronto, Canada. Body found in water in an early stage of putrefaction with extensive wrinkling of feet and…
Fatal head injury from a boat propeller. No further info. Often when discussing boat safety one aspect is…
Postmortem bloating of body may create a misleading picture of obesity. Bloody decomposition fluid oozing from mouth and…
Typical postmortem changes combined with mud and debris as well as sloughing of the skin of the hands…
Postmortem feeding from fish and crustaceans found on this body retrieved from the ocean. No further info. Bodies…
The body of a 35-year-old woman was recovered from the bank of a swamp in the southeastern United…
If a body is placed in water containing a large amount of bacteria, such as that from sewage…
India. This body was found in a pond, no further info. Associated with putrefaction is the production of…
A 42-year-old man was found with his head, torso, and most of his upper and lower extremities completely…
Bloating of face and effusion of blood-tinged fluid from the nostrils and mouth. A body recovered from water,…
The body of this woman had been in the water for approximately one week. Notice the effects of…
The body of this decomposed individual was pulled from the sea. The loss of tissue around eyes and…
2001 - Ventura County, California. The decomposed body of an elderly male was found floating in the ocean…
Clothing on a drowning victim will alter the buoyancy and the progression of decomposition. It may also be…
A 29-year-old man was fishing when his canoe turned over and his body submerged. The body was recovered…
This individual was found in the Northern Adriatic Sea, near Italy. No further info. Many times it is…
March 18, 2003 - Bonn, Germany. A lethal occupational accident occurred at the Bonn Salierweg sewage treatment plant…
In mid-November 2010 a hunter walking on the Po river bank near Parma (Emilia-Romagna Region, in the north-east…
