ISSN: 0022-1198
CODEN: JFSCA
Page Count: 4

Missouri's Lakes and the Disposal of Homicide Victims
Dix, JD
Boone County medical examiner, University of Missouri, MO

(Received 7 April 1986; accepted 9 June 1986)

Abstract

This paper presents the circumstances surrounding the retrieval and subsequent autopsies of four bodies accidentally discovered weighted down in Missouri's lakes. The bodies, representing four separate cases of homicide, were sunken for a period of three weeks to ten months. The relationship of adipocere formation to the postmortem interval and the problems of injury interpretation are discussed.

Keywords:
pathology and biology, submerged bodies, decomposition, homicide, postmortem interval

Paper ID: JFS12390J
DOI: 10.1520/JFS12390J
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