The history of forensic entomology in German-speaking countries

Klotzbach, Heike; Krettek, Roman; Bratzke, H.; Püschel, Klaus; Zehner, Richard; Amendt, Jens

doi:10.1016/j.forsciint.2004.04.062

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“…Examples of this are provided for North America by Lord (1990) and Greenberg and Wells (1998) for the USA and by Anderson (1997) for Canada. In Europe, cases have been documented by Introna et al (1998), by Turchetto et al (2001) for Italy, by Starkeby (2001) for Norway, by Benecke (1998), Amendt et al (2000), Benecke and Lessig (2001), Schroeder et al (2003), Benecke et al (2004), and Klotzbach et al (2004) for Germany, and by Arnaldos et al (2005) for Spain. Documented cases in Colombia include those by Barreto et al (2002) and in Asia by Kulshrestha and Satpathy (2001) for India and Lee et al (2004) for Malaysia.…”

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Forensic entomology cases in Thailand: a review of cases from 2000 to 2006

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This paper presents and discusses 30 cases of cadavers that had been transferred for forensic entomology investigations to the Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, northern Thailand, from 2000 to 2006. Variable death scenes were determined, including forested area and suburban and urban outdoor and indoor environments. The fly specimens found in the corpses obtained were the most commonly of the blow fly of family Calliphoridae, and consisted of Chrysomya megacephala (F.), Chrysomya rufifacies (Macquart) Chrysomya villeneuvi Patton, Chrysomya nigripes Aubertin, Chrysomya bezziana Villeneuve, Chrysomya chani Kurahashi, Lucilia cuprina (Wiedemann), Hemipyrellia ligurriens (Wiedemann), and two unknown species. Flies of the family Muscidae [Hydrotaea spinigera Stein, Synthesiomyia nudiseta (Wulp)], Piophilidae [Piophila casei (L.)], Phoridae [Megaselia scalaris (Loew)], Sarcophagidae [Parasarcophaga ruficornis (F.) and three unknown species], and Stratiomyiidae (Sargus sp.) were also collected from these human remains. Larvae and adults of the beetle, Dermestes maculatus DeGeer (Coleoptera: Dermestidae), were also found in some cases. Chrysomya megacephala and C. rufifacies were the most common species found in the ecologically varied death scene habitats associated with both urban and forested areas, while C. nigripes was commonly discovered in forested places. S. nudiseta was collected only from corpses found in an indoor death scene.

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Forensic entomology cases in Thailand: a review of cases from 2000 to 2006

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“…There are several applications of forensic entomology in the criminal field including death investigations, detection of drugs or poisons and determination of the location of an incident (Benecke ). Forensic entomology can be subdivided into three fields: urban, stored products and medico‐criminal forensic entomology (Klotzbach & Krettek ). Insects can be used in the investigation of a crime scene in both terrestrial and aquatic environments (Anderson ; Erzinçlioglu ; Keiper & Casamatta ; Hobischak & Anderson ; Oliveira‐Costa & de Mello‐Patiu ).…”

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Temporal analysis of 16 STR loci in human blood drawn from two culicid mosquitoes cultured at different temperatures

Ibrahim

Alrakan

Alaifan

2015

Entomological Research

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“…However, the modern science of employing arthropods in forensic investigations started in the early 1800s in France, Germany, Italy and Spain (Benecke 2001;Amendt et al 2004;Klotzbach et al 2004). Only the second criminal case in France's history that used arthropods for estimating a post mortem interval of a corpse employed mites.…”

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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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The history of forensic entomology in German-speaking countries

Cited by 16 publications

References 19 publications

Forensic entomology cases in Thailand: a review of cases from 2000 to 2006

Forensic entomology cases in Thailand: a review of cases from 2000 to 2006

Temporal analysis of 16 STR loci in human blood drawn from two culicid mosquitoes cultured at different temperatures

Forensic acarology: an introduction

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