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Am I right in saying that the pathologist (or whoever) would be able to determine exactly how long kasia was dead before the police got there? Surely she would have been at least cold, if not starting to suffer from rigor mortis?
Do you think this was overlooked by the programme makers or is this how the factory owners will be caught?
Do you think this was overlooked by the programme makers or is this how the factory owners will be caught?
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Liver Temperature tells exactly when someone died along with stages of rigor mortis - this is taken from Forensic files :
Estimating Time of Death (TOD)
Coroner measures temperature of liver to determine time of death.
Medical investigators look for various signs to help them estimate a time frame -- usually a 2 to 4-hour window of time -- in which the victim probably died. These signs may include the following:
Rigor mortis (the stiffening of the muscles that occurs shortly after death)
Lividity (pooling of blood)
Body core temperature
Clouding of the corneas
Evidence of a decompositional process
Presence/absence of purge fluid
Drying of the tissues.
The organs most commonly used to determine the body core temperature are the liver and the brain, because of their mass and density. After death, the body temperature falls toward the temperature of the surroundings at a rate of about one-and-a-half degrees per hour. This rate will vary depending on the amount of body fat, the amount of blood loss, the amount of type of clothing worn by the victim, the location of the body (whether it was lying near a heating or air conditioning vent or inside a cooler), and, if the body was found outdoors, on the weather conditions, including air temperature, wind, and precipitation (rain or snow).
http://www.courttv.com/onair/shows/forensicfil es/techniques/time_death.html
Estimating Time of Death (TOD)
Coroner measures temperature of liver to determine time of death.
Medical investigators look for various signs to help them estimate a time frame -- usually a 2 to 4-hour window of time -- in which the victim probably died. These signs may include the following:
Rigor mortis (the stiffening of the muscles that occurs shortly after death)
Lividity (pooling of blood)
Body core temperature
Clouding of the corneas
Evidence of a decompositional process
Presence/absence of purge fluid
Drying of the tissues.
The organs most commonly used to determine the body core temperature are the liver and the brain, because of their mass and density. After death, the body temperature falls toward the temperature of the surroundings at a rate of about one-and-a-half degrees per hour. This rate will vary depending on the amount of body fat, the amount of blood loss, the amount of type of clothing worn by the victim, the location of the body (whether it was lying near a heating or air conditioning vent or inside a cooler), and, if the body was found outdoors, on the weather conditions, including air temperature, wind, and precipitation (rain or snow).
http://www.courttv.com/onair/shows/forensicfil es/techniques/time_death.html
