FSC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Ballistic Trauma, Trace Evidence, Voicemail
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May suggest interruption or break in behavior. Isolating specific dates: dated items in fridge, voicemail messages, electronic activity, receipts, calendar entries. If cannot determine cause or manner of death: conduct autopsy. Autopsy = postmortem examination: cause of death (cod, manner of death, victim identification, recovering trace evidence from body. Injury or disease that started biological chain of events, resulting in death. How the cause of death came to be. Based on circumstances surrounding the incident that caused the death. Natural: natural disease or biological abnormality, (cid:862)old age(cid:863) Accidental: actions resulting in death are accidental and unintentional. Homicide: result of actions of another person. Combines several technologies: photogrammetry external surfaces, ct scan bones and other dense tissues, mri soft tissue. Non-invasive, non-destructive; honor the wishes of the family and not invade the human body. Creating permanent data set: viewable by others, reviewed at later date if needed. Deaths from sharp force trauma often due to loss of blood.
