Chapter 12: Final Analysis. Top Mark

Investigators arrive at a home containing two bodies. The temperature outside is below freezing, but the house is a comfortable 21 degrees Celsius (70 degrees Fahrenheit). The bodies are found on a couch in the living room. One victim is a young, obese girl, who is possibly a teenager or in her early twenties. She is wearing short pajamas (tank top and shorts) and no shoes. She has a medical bracelet on her left wrist. The other body is a thin, elderly man dressed in a long-sleeved shirt, corduroy pants, socks, and loafers. If the two victims expired at the same time, _____. the female body will be more decomposed A _____ is a medical doctor specifically trained to perform autopsies to determine the presence or absence of disease, injury, or poisoning. forensic pathologist When processing the crime scene, the site information form should be completed _____. prior to examination of the body If the temperature of a body at a crime scene is _____, the PMI would be estimated at approximately 9 hours. 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit) When examining a body at a crime scene, _____