ISSN: 0022-1198
Page Count: 5

Concealment of the Body in Drug Deaths
Hawley, DA
Assistant professor, Indiana University School of Medicine, IN

Doedens, DJ
Assistant professor, Indiana University School of Medicine, IN

Pless, JE
Professor and director, Indiana University School of Medicine, IN

McClain, JL
Fellow in forensic pathology, Indiana University School of Medicine, IN

(Received 5 March 1988; accepted 16 June 1988)

Abstract

Discovery of a concealed body often leads to the assumption that the manner of death was homicide. However, in cases where death has resulted from illicit drug use or drug abuse, the body may be concealed to protect persons involved in drug abuse or drug marketing.

Keywords:
criminalistics, pathology and biology, concealment, death, drugs, cocaine

Paper ID: JFS12665J
DOI: 10.1520/JFS12665J
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