'The Silence of the Lambs' introduced the world to forensic entomology—but how much has changed since?

In the early 1990s, crime-loving television audiences could choose mainly between cozy, fictional detective series such as ...
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‘Forensic taphonomy provides researchers with a huge playing field’

Forensics science is a strong emerging field that offers tremendous scope for research and employment. City girl Rushali Dargan, has secured a full scholarship for a doctoral thesis on a topic that ...
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Taphonomy of human remains : forensic analysis of the dead and the depositional environment / edited by Eline M.J. Schotsmans, Dr. Nicholas Márquez-Grant, Shari Forbes

ANTHMAI copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Introduction -- Part I General Post-Mortem Processes: Degradation of Soft Tissue, Bone and Associated Materials -- 1 Gross ...
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Manual of forensic taphonomy / edited by James T. Pokines, Steven A. Symes

1. Introduction : collection of macroscopic osseous taphonomic data and the recognition of taphonomic suites of characteristics / James T. Pokines -- 2. Microscopic destruction of bone / Miranda M.E.
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How do bodies decompose? Cape Town forensic scientists are pushing frontiers of new detection methods

Cape Town has consistently been one of the metropolitan regions in South Africa with the highest murder rates. It has more than double the national average, and is currently ranked second overall and ...
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Mapping mortality: A multivariate GIS approach to taphonomy for enhancing Post Mortem Interval (PMI) estimation

Shivangi Rao is a Scientific Officer in the Biology/DNA Division at the State Forensic Science Laboratory, Raipur, Chhattisgarh. She is also a Research Scholar in the Department of Forensic Science at ...
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Clothed pig carcasses are revealing the secrets of mummification – South African study provides insights for forensic scientists

It was the kind of task any competent seamstress has completed hundreds of times before: altering denim jeans and jerseys. But there was something different about this piece of work. Though our team ...