Narrowing down the time of death
Estimating someone’s time of death can be a complicated and vague affair, with important ramifications – especially if it’s suspicious.
And let’s face it, as wryly noted on Coroner Talk, perpetrators are highly unlikely to check the time they committed a homicide and wouldn’t let on even if they did.
Scientists say they have now devised a simplified, versatile numerical model to predict body cooling and thus the time elapsed since death (the post-mortem interval), reporting their findings in the journal Science Advances.
Published by Cosmos.
