Post-mortem Interval of Buried Carcasses in a Tropical Rainforest Vegetation of Nigeria

• Main Authors: Darlington Nnamdi Onyejike (Author), Ugochukwu Godfrey Esomonu (Author), Victor Adolf Fischer (Author), Ifeoma Miracle Onyejike (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2024-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Most of the murder victims in Nigeria are concealed in shallow graves or clandestine paths or bushes. Knowledge of post-mortem interval (PMI) of buried carcasses is useful in estimating time since death for buried homicide scenarios. The PMI of buried remains is different from that of re...