Across
- 2. Temporary and can be useful in determining TOD
- 5. Leathered skin and bones remain.
- 7. Gases and fluids are released until the body ruptures.
- 8. Known as pooling of blood in the body.
- 9. The exact time that the victim drew his/her last breath. It is the legal time of death, the time recorded on the death certificate.
- 10. Temperature loss after death.
- 11. Great mass loss, insect activity, body begins to liquity.
Down
- 1. The muscles stiffen after death (death stiffness)
- 3. Microbes grow and become abundant- gases begin to be produced.
- 4. The time frame between death and discovery of organism.
- 6. Insect activity in advanced stages, descrease in activity.
- 8. As the body begins to decompose, blood seeps down through the tissues and settles into the lower parts of the body.
- 12. Cessation,or end, of life