Neglect of the elderly: forensic entomology cases and considerations

Benecke, Mark; Josephi, E; Zweihoff, R. F.

doi:10.1016/j.forsciint.2004.09.061

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“…Therefore, the arthropods found at a crime scene and on a victim's body can assist many types of forensic investigation [1,3]. In particular, they can provide information about time since death, season of death, primary crime scene, movement or concealment of the remains following death, specific sites of trauma on the body, use of drugs and neglect of children [4], elders [5] or non-autonomous people [6] and victim's identification when the body is removed from the initial decomposition site [2].…”

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Crime scene and body alterations caused by arthropods: implications in death investigation

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The activity of arthropods on corpses has been largely investigated, since they can produce information to reconstruct the perimortem events. However, the feeding/movement activity of insects around the crime scene, among the clothes and on the body, can also cause some alterations that can lead to wrong reconstruction and misinterpretations. This article summarises all the postmortem arthropods artefacts related to the scene (i.e. fly artefacts and floor stripes) and the body (i.e. skin and other soft tissue alterations, bone alterations and hair alterations) that can mislead the forensic pathologist, discussing macroscopic and microscopic findings derived from forensic casework and from experimental laboratory studies, in order to provide a useful instrument to avoid misinterpretations and evaluation errors. Finally, some procedural notes for the documentation and the interpretation of findings are proposed.

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“…The use of insects like the false stable fly, Muscina stabulans (Muscidae, Diptera), and the lesser house fly, Fannia canicularis (Fanniidae, Diptera), in cases of child and elder neglect has brought insects and criminal forensic investigations more to the forefront of attention (Benecke and Lessig 2001;Benecke et al 2004). Forensic investigations associated with animals in general, but focusing on animal cruelty investigations and with wildlife in particular, are becoming more prominent (Sinclair et al 2006;Cooper and Cooper 2007;Merck 2007).…”

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Forensic acarology: an introduction

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Mites can be found in all imaginable terrestrial habitats, in freshwater, and in salt water. Mites can be found in our houses and furnishings, on our clothes, and even in the pores of our skin-almost every single person carries mites. Most of the time, we are unaware of them because they are small and easily overlooked, and-most of the timethey do not cause trouble. In fact, they may even proof useful, for instance in forensics. The first arthropod scavengers colonising a dead body will be flies with phoretic mites. The flies will complete their life cycle in and around the corpse, while the mites may feed on the immature stages of the flies. The mites will reproduce much faster than their carriers, offering themselves as valuable timeline markers. There are environments where insects are absent or rare or the environmental conditions impede their access to the corpse. Here, mites that are already present and mites that arrive walking, through air currents or material transfer become important. At the end of the ninetieth century, the work of Jean Pierre Mégnin became the starting point of forensic acarology. 123Exp Appl Acarol (2009) 49:3-13 DOI 10.1007 distinct waves of arthropods colonising human carcasses. The first wave included flies and mites, the sixth wave was composed of mites exclusively. The scope of forensic acarology goes further than mites as indicators of time of death. Mites are micro-habitat specific and might provide evidential data on movement or relocation of bodies, or locating a suspect at the scene of a crime. Because of their high diversity, wide occurrence, and abundance, mites may be of great value in the analysis of trace evidence.

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“…Nevertheless, entomology remains under-exploited and has unexplored potential, particularly in combination with DNA analysis, according to Allan Barton, Associate Professor of Chemistry at Murdoch University in Western Australia, which has a course in forensic biology and toxicology. Forensic entomology is potentially useful in cases of child neglect (Benecke & Lessig, 2001) and neglect of the elderly (Benecke et al, 2004), in addition to cases of murder.…”

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Neglect of the elderly: forensic entomology cases and considerations

Cited by 105 publications

References 5 publications

Crime scene and body alterations caused by arthropods: implications in death investigation

Crime scene and body alterations caused by arthropods: implications in death investigation

Forensic acarology: an introduction

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