An experimental study on investigating the postmortem interval in dichlorvos poisoned rats by GC/MS-based metabolomics

The accurate estimation of the postmortem interval (PMI) is critically important in excluding or including suspects and delimiting the investigation range in forensic science. The examination of the development of postmortem changes, including hypostasis[1], algor mortis[2] and rigor mortis[3,4], is the traditional method for estimating PMI in forensic practice. Nevertheless, only an approximate estimate can be derived from traditional methods[5].

Source: Legal Medicine - October 11, 2018 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Xinhua Dai, Fei Fan, Yi Ye, Xiang Lu, Fan Chen, Zhigui Wu, Linchuan Liao Source Type: research