Mortuary time

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The dead body time (also post-mortem interval , PMI) describes the period between a fatal event and the finding of the dead body. The Forensic Medicine can based on signs of death , such as rigor mortis and postmortem lividity and other features such as insect infestation and determine the core body temperature determine the approximate time of death. This procedure is also known as determining the time of death .

The most reliable method turns out to 48 hours post mortem , the forensic entomology . In particular, the developmental stages of blowfly larvae provide information about the time of death, depending on the ambient temperature and other weather conditions. However, the time interval relates to the first infection and therefore the so-called minimum post mortem interval (MPI).

See also

literature

  • Martin Grassberger, Harald Schmid, Alexander Koenig: death investigation. Finding and securing evidence: A practical guide for police, lawyers and doctors . Springer Verlag, 2009, ISBN 3-211-79959-1 ( full text in the Google book search).
  • Bernd Herrmann: Biological traces: Volume 1: Criminal biology . Springer Verlag, 2007, ISBN 3-540-71110-4 ( full text in the Google book search).
  • Henßge C, Madea (1988) Methods for determining the time of death on corpses. Schmidt-Römhild Verlag, Lübeck

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Martin Grassberger, Harald Schmid, Alexander Koenig: death investigation. Finding and securing evidence: A practical guide for the police, lawyers and doctors, Springer Verlag 2009, p. 53 here online
  2. ↑ Mark Benecke (2008) A brief survey of the history of forensic entomology . Acta biologica Benrodis , Volume 14, Pages 15-38 (.pdf)