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Crime Scene: A Forensic Market



        scene is conducted, just             death, time since death,             observing the stages of
        assume that you are in a             mode of death as well as             decomposition. The early
        market full of variety of            to describe in detail all            stages of death include

        shops and just like every            external as well as internal  pallor mortis, algor mor-
        shop has a different story           injuries.                            tis, livor mortis and rigor

        and a unique thing to offer                                               mortis. The late signs of
        so does a crime scene, in
        which each and every evi-

        dence you encounter has
        a unique thing to reveal

        which are peculiar from
        one crime scene to another
        and from one criminal to

        another. But this requires
        the use of an expert who

        can bring together the
        scattered pieces of the jig-
        saw puzzle and can help in

        solving crime concerned
        with his/her subject matter

        of expertise.
        The most common type
        of evidence that can be

        encountered at most of the                       Figure 3: A model showing normal v/s the arsenic stages of decomposition from Google.com
        crime scene is the dead              Figure 2 : A dead body               death are putrefaction/

        body. Each and every dead  lying as face facing to-                       decomposition and skel-
        body has a story to tell,            wards the floor. Source:             etonization. Pallor mortis
        but an expert who can un-            https://www.needpix.                 is usually observed after

        veil that story to find out          com/photo/159467/crime-              half an hour of death and
        the culprit is required. The  scene-crime-blood-capi-                     it is observed due to the

        dead body is a silent evi-           tal-crimes-discovery-crim- stoppage of circulation
        dence that speaks in huge            inal-case-free-pictures-             after death as the blood
        volumes and when exam-               free-photos-free-images              drains out from the small

        ined properly as it helps            The time and cause of                vessels to the large ones,
        in estimating the cause of           death can be stated by               and thereby the face usu-



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