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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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