Tafonomía forense: estudio experimental del proceso de descomposición cadavérica en un Bosque seco tropical costero
The Colombian conflict and common crime are the main sources of homicides in the country, confronting the authorities with abandoned and unidentified dead bodies, this situation raises the need to recreate crime scenes as a tool to estimate the Post-Mortem Interval. A pig carcass was used to study i...
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2021
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| Sumario: | The Colombian conflict and common crime are the main sources of homicides in the country, confronting the authorities with abandoned and unidentified dead bodies, this situation raises the need to recreate crime scenes as a tool to estimate the Post-Mortem Interval. A pig carcass was used to study its decomposition process under sun exposure conditions in a tropical dry forest patch in Cerro Ziruma, Santa Marta, Colombia. The pig is a good biomodel, because of their biological similarities with the human being. Five phases of decomposition were observed, which were described along 10 days, considering physical changes and ambient temperature. It was documented the activity of necrophagous insects, which, concurrently with high temperatures of the study area, played an important role in the acceleration of decomposition process. The use of this type of biological models will allow in the future the development of forensic tools and the execution of sampling protocols, to clarify medical-legal researches, since it has useful information to estimate the times of death of corpses found in an advanced state of decomposition in similar ecosystem. |
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