Upgrade to remove ads
Only $35.99/year

06.07 Module 6 Exam (87%)

Terms in this set (15)

Blowflies are present in and around a body

WRONG
as early as one hour after death
While on the scene, Investigator Simmons begins to record various pieces of information. Which of the things recorded is an example of a mechanism of death?
A pillow used to suffocate someone
Periodontal diseases in teeth and osteoarthritis are common problems that show up on skeletal remains.
True
Medical autopsies are performed when the cause of death is known but a forensic autopsy happens when the cause of death is suspicious.
True
Heavy meals can take up to six hours to digest fully in the stomach.
True
The type of insects and the stage of the insect's life can give some indication of how long a body has been dead.
True
Like other bodily processes, digestion ceases when a person dies.
True
While examining the scene of a murder, Investigator Allen notes that the newspaper is opened on the kitchen table. He concludes that the victim had already gone out to get his newspaper before he was murdered. This evidence is an example of an indicative act.
True
Investigators find a murder victim inside a closed-up house on a hot, steamy summer's day. The victim's body has just begun to show rigor mortis in the face and neck, but their limbs are still pliable. What does this possibly indicate to the investigators?
The time of death happened very recently, in the past two to six hours.
Investigator Thurston is called to the home of an elderly man who lived alone. No one had any contact with him the night before, but his neighbor says that he always ate dinner at 7 pm sharp. To pinpoint the time of death, they perform an autopsy and examine the man's stomach contents. They find that the remnants of the man's dinner had begun to enter his lower intestine. What does this tell the investigators?

WRONG
The victim died around 8:30 pm.
What would interfere the most with using post-mortem cooling to determine time of death?
A victim dying in a very cold freezer
What information can not be learned from examining stages of the body after death?
Why the person was killed
Which of the following is a characteristic of putrefaction?
Bloating
The gradual cooling of the body after death until it reaches the temperature of the air around it is called
algor mortis
If a body is buried, how long will the process of complete skeletonization take?
Two years
Students also viewed