Pathology of death
Pathology of death:As an investigator you have been tasked with solving a hit and run homicide case
involving a pedestrian and unknown vehicle. Explain what wounds you may expect to see
and how these injuries may help reconstruct the crime.
2. One of the biggest challenges to medical examiners today is determining whether an
infant died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) or whether foul play was involved.
Discuss the research behind SIDS and what evidence assists the medical examiner in
concluding a death was the result of SIDS. Summarize the protocol an investigator should
use at a crime scene when investigating a possible SIDS death.
3. Define carboxyhemoglobin and explain its relationship to the MGM Grand Hotel in Las
Vegas.
4. Two children were playing hide and seek with friends. With the assistance of another
friend, the two children were lowered down into an abandoned, dry well. The well was
approximately 15 feet deep. After two days of searching, a police officer located the two
missing children deceased inside the well. Neither child had any signs of injury and did
not die as a result of exposure, starvation, or dehydration.
What was the cause of death? Explain your rationale using the assigned readings as well
as and external research.
5. What parts of the human body can DNA be extracted from for identification of the
deceased? Which of these parts of the body are the most likely to be found and not be
degraded in a natural disaster?
Address victims recovered in water as well as charred remains.
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