2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
5/21/2018 | 3:00 PM - 3:15 PM | FORENSIC APPLICATIONS OF STUDYING DEATH AND DECOMPOSITION | 321
FORENSIC APPLICATIONS OF STUDYING DEATH AND DECOMPOSITION
In aquatic systems, the forensic application is focused on death scene investigations where the question of concern is the post-mortem submersion interval (PMSI) or the moment at which a human body is submerged to the point of discovery. This time interval is different from that applied to death scenes in terrestrial systems where the time of colonization is used. Bridging the relationship between carrion decomposition and terrestrial invertebrates with criminal investigations has been facilitated by our current knowledge on their life histories and basic ecological specialization to feed on carrion. Necrophagous-specific taxa appear to be absent in freshwater systems and the ecological and evolutionary drivers of trophic and other ecological relationships in aquatic systems might explain the absence of necrophagic specialization among aquatic invertebrates. However, the application of benthic ecological/molecular methodologies in the last decade has elucidated how algae/insect/microbe associations with carrion have provided some promise toward their use in the world of criminal justice and forensic science. Evidence of these advances will be presented in the form of actual criminal case studies.
- Interdisciplinary
- Necrobiome
- Invertebrate
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John Wallace
(), Millersville University, john.wallace@millersville.edu;
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