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A 56-year-old woman was found dead in her bedroom. Her face and the bed were covered with thick…
This individual committed suicide by hanging. Here the body is at the morgue for inspection. Hanging is one…
2018 - Argentina. A 62 year old motorcyclist died after getting stuck to the rear underride guards of…
Numerous hesitation marks accompany the self-inflicted gouges to the neck by a broken bottle. Hesitation marks are not…
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This individual has self-inflicted incised wounds on the neck, in the antecubital fossae, and on the flexor aspects…
Serbia. A 67-year-old woman, without any somatic or psychiatric comorbidities, was found dead in a shed in her…
This individual was run over by a train. Railroad deaths in the US totaled 757 in 2020, a…
USA. A cluster of incised wounds across the face and neck. Incised wounds can also be referred to…
Occasionally, one is able to glean important information from wounds such as in the 19-year-old female featured in…
A man drove his watercraft into the port side of a boat. The propeller wounds begin on the…
This individual has fatal chop wounds on the side of the head from an axe. Chop wounds are…
Notice the protrusion of the tongue on this decomposing individual. The rate of decomposition depends on the temperature,…
A broad range of carnivores can be involved in the postmortem destruction of corpses located in open spaces…
Probes are effective in demonstrating the paths of projectiles through the body. All cutaneous wounds must be photographed…
Lacerations inflicted by a claw hammer. Multiple lacerations with split and abraded margins are typical for bludgeoning but…
