A retrospective comparative study to evaluate the reliability of post-mortem interval sources in UK and US medico-legal death investigations

A synthesis of carcass decomposition studies conducted at a tropical (Aw) taphonomy facility: 2013–2022

“…Medicolegal decomposition cases with a known PMI can be used to develop a database for human remains in forensic scenarios. Retrospective and real-time decomposition studies conducted in collaboration with medicolegal death investigation agencies provide valuable insight into the taphonomy within a given jurisdiction, particularly in built environments [ 14 , 42 , 43 , 56 , [100] , [101] , [102] , [103] , [104] , [105] , [106] , [107] ]. These data will likely provide investigators with an improved ability to determine if the extent of decomposition is consistent with the scene findings.…”