Forensic Medicine & Toxicology

Dental charting refers to providing a quick representation or formula to define the types of teeth along with their number. There are more than 150 methods of the dental chart, but in this, we only discuss the main tooth numbering systems. 1. Universal Tooth Numbering System by Cunningham The universal numbering system was developed by …

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Diatoms in no joke when it comes to defining the type of drowning. There are more than 9 significant how they help in solving the crime. But I’m not going to talk about how they’re examined or how they help forensics here; instead, I’m going to talk about real-life cases that have been solved with …

Famous Cases Related to Diatoms: How Diatoms Helps in Solving Crime? Read More »

You can never foretell what will happen next. When happy moments turn horrifying. That’s what happened to Steven and Bobby one afternoon when they were enjoying fishing at Stenger’s Pond in Waterford. In this short post, I discuss how the Reel Danger attack case of Two Young Boys at Stenger’s Pond, Connecticut was solved, and …

Reel Danger [Stenger’s Pond Attack] Case Study: Forensic Files, Diatoms, Evidence, And Culprits Read More »

Diatoms not only share 20% of oxygen production, but their contributing % is significantly higher in resolving drowning-related cases. And there is a specific forensic discipline that defines the legal importance of diatoms to forensic cases. It is called Forensic Limnology. Forensic Limnology, by definition, is the study of freshwater ecology for the presence of …

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Offensive and Defensive wounds are the wounds that could occur during close encounters between the offender and victim. They are likely be considered as the sides of coins, but here, offensive injuries are rarely seen as compared to defensive wounds. Forensic Medico-legal Comparison of Defensive Vs Offensive Wound Features Defense Wound Offense Wound Causes More …

Offensive Vs Defensive Wounds: Forensic Injuries & Medico-Legal Importance Read More »

Blood is one of the most common types of biological evidence that are encountered in violent crime scenes. And blood is one of the most commonly observed fingerprint contaminants. and these prints are called bloody fingerprints. The proper definition would be It is defined as the deposition of blood on the fingermarks (or fingermarks because …

Development of Bloody Fingerprint: Chemical Test and Techniques Read More »

Blood at the crime scene? The first question would be, “Is the suspected bloodstain is possibly the blood or not?” For that, an examiner has to perform one of the presumptive tests for blood on the field. Table of All Presumptive Test With Their Color Presumptive Test For Blood Reagent Color Adler Test (Benzidine Test) …

Presumptive Tests for Blood: 11 Important Forensic Test Included Read More »

Human bodies are leaky. If pierce to any depth they tend to gush or spray blood aimlessly. This is hardly surprising since the average-sized adult male has between five and six quarts of blood gurgling through their system (females and children have slightly less). It can gush, it can drip, or spatter across the air …

Bloodstain Pattern Analysis: Forensic Types and Classification Read More »