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Understanding Environmental Effects on Blowflies Permits Fine-Tuning of Evidence Revealed From Fly Colonization of Decomposing Bodies

Loaded on Sept. 15, 2022 by Douglas Ankney published in Criminal Legal News October, 2022, page 50
Filed under: Crime Labs, junk science. Location: United States of America.

by Douglas Ankney

Forensic investigators have long used the well-known stages of blowfly development found on bodies post mortem to determine the amount of time that has elapsed since death. However, that standard of measurement is misleading when the temperatures around the body are outside the moderate range.

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