It is all about the insects: a retrospective on 20 years of forensic entomology highlights the importance of insects in legal investigations.
Blow flies
Legal medicine
Myiasis
Negligence
Postmortem interval
Journal
International journal of legal medicine
ISSN: 1437-1596
Titre abrégé: Int J Legal Med
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 9101456
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Nov 2021
Nov 2021
Historique:
received:
15
12
2020
accepted:
03
06
2021
pubmed:
1
10
2021
medline:
9
11
2021
entrez:
30
9
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
This study highlights the importance of insect evidence by evaluating 949 insect-associated cases, including 139 entomological reports, from 2001 to 2019 at the Institute of Legal Medicine Frankfurt/Germany. With a high number of cases in the summer months and a low number in the colder season, 78.5% of the bodies were found indoors, regardless of year or month. In more than 80% of the cases, where PMI information was available (n = 704), the presumed PMI ranged from 1 to 21 days, a period during which entomological evidence can provide a day-specific estimate of PMI
Identifiants
pubmed: 34591184
doi: 10.1007/s00414-021-02628-6
pii: 10.1007/s00414-021-02628-6
pmc: PMC8523412
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
2637-2651Informations de copyright
© 2021. The Author(s).
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