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CORPSE: Nature, Forensics, and the Struggle to Pinpoint Time of
Death From Corpse: “It
still startles most people to learn that a prudent medical examiner can
rarely, if ever, measure the interval between death and a body’s discovery.
Murder mysteries and crime shows certainly give the subject short shrift.
Even TV’s intrepid Quincy, M.D. somehow avoided the question, spending
episode after episode cleverly teasing out cause of death for his storied
corpses. In real life, the challenge tends to be just the opposite. Cause of death is usually more than obvious to every police officer responding to the scene of murder. Knives leave gaping wounds, bullets blackened pits, and clubs a crumpled skull. Even poisons leave traces – child’s play for a coroner with access to the most basic toxicology screens. But if the body contains a trusty chronometer – some biochemical display set blinking when the power goes off – it has yet to be found …” By
Jessica Snyder Sachs |
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