Murder We Wrote 2nd =)

Questions:


4. What methods are commonly used to find the time of death?

*The rate method: it measures the changes on the body comparing it with one known initial or final rate, for example the changes of temperature of the body.
*The concurrence method: it compares something that happened in the crime with something known that happened to the victim before the crime, for example the last known meal.
*By the living animals in the body (larvas/bugs), it is usually used when the body has been outside (not on a closed place) for a reasonable time.
*Algor Mortis
* cooling law of newton: is about what we are learning on class, the temperature of the body is compared with the environmental temperature.

5. What factors are considered in Algor Mortis?
1. The "size" of the body.
2. Clothing and coverings.
3. Movement and humidity of the air.
4. Immersion in water.

*temperature and external factors.

6. How does the environment affect the time of death?

by the larvae living on the corpse, if the body is exposed to a open environment, there is more chance for the body to grow larvae and that's how forensic scientists according to the size of the larvae can tell how many time has been there, another things is the clothes of the body because it changes the temperature, also the water or humidity, for example, if it rains it is difficult to tell the time of death of the body.

7. What can you tell about the different methods of temperature reading of the body? Do they make a difference in the results?

Of course they make a difference, and all of them are very useful because if there are suspects, it is possible to know who was the murderer or at least tell if they are telling the truth, mostly by the method of the cooling law of newton, besides it also helps to know if what the witnesses say is true, if some witness is lying about when they saw the body or the murderer too.

All methods are useful to solve crimes