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from the start-of-the-zombie-apocalypse dept.
Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
An Australian scientist has proved that human bodies move around significantly for more than a year after death, in findings that could have implications for detectives and pathologists around the world.
After studying and photographing the movements of a corpse over 17-months, Alyson Wilson told AFP on Friday that she found humans don't exactly rest in peace.
In one case study, arms that began held close to the body ended up flung out to the side.
"We think the movements relate to the process of decomposition, as the body mummifies and the ligaments dry out," she said.
[...] Wilson and her colleagues were trying to improve a commonly used system for estimating the time of death using time-lapse cameras and in the process found that human bodies actually move around significantly.
Her findings were recently published in the journal Forensic Science International: Synergy.
A better understanding of these movements and the rate of decomposition could be used by police to estimate time of death more accurately.
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(Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Sunday September 15 2019, @12:49AM
Actually a brick in the mouth or sickle across the neck (to decapitate the dead, should they arise) are the more traditional procedures.
Staking was a medieval southern Slavic practice for exhumed dead, who would appear fatter than before death and frequently had blood around their mouths.
In Briton (gotta love those crazy Brits!) staking was used for suicides after the body was dragged through town and buried in unconsecrated ground – usually a rural crossroads. For good measure a stake was then driven through their heart. Crossroads burials were only abolished by Act of Parliament in 1823.
https://www.livescience.com/48924-mystery-of-vampire-burials-solved.html [livescience.com]
https://www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/were-vampires-buried-with-a-stake-through-their-heart/ [historyextra.com]
Reality, far more gruesome than the horror movies based on the incidents.
Alex Jones lawyer inspires new TV series: CSI Moron Division.