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Note the bloated face of the deceased. This victim’s body was found indoors during the summertime. He had…

Oval to round cutaneous defects caused by crustaceans postmortem on the neck and upper trunk in a drowning…

This 52-year-old woman has a contact gunshot wound of her right temple. Note how the scalp is split…

The morbidity and mortality produced by obesity in the United States and other developed societies has reached epidemic…

A 42-year-old woman was discovered dead, the body was covered with fungal plaques. She had been leading a…

Massive injuries from contact handgun wounds of the head, when they do occur, are associated with Magnum calibers,…

Postmortem animal depredation is a substantial part of the taphonomic processes a body undergoes after death. While the…

This individual died from a complete body transection across abdomen, and decapitation in a motorcycle accident. Blunt-force abdominal…

This picture was taken by an Italian medical student during an autopsy on the island of Malta. Apparently,…

The "burst head" effect from a shotgun refers to extreme cranial trauma caused by a close-range shotgun blast…

Incomplete skeletonization of a forearm due to post-mortem animal scavenging by a domestic German Shepherd. Skeletonization (synonym: skeletalization)…