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Postmortem fun!

Category: Death and Injury
Posted on: April 9, 2008 1:11 PM, by Chris

Kunz J, Gross A. Victim's scalp on the killer's head. An unusual case of criminal postmortem mutilation. Am J Forensic Med Pathol. 2001 Sep;22(3):327-31.

Dude must have watched him some Con Air. Sweet movie, BTW. John Malkovich and Steve Buscemi as murderous badasses, and Nic Cage with greasy dreads. What else do you need? Don't you dare say a script.

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Ropohl D, Scheithauer R, Pollak S. Postmortem injuries inflicted by domestic golden hamster: morphological aspects and evidence by DNA typing. Forensic Sci Int. 1995 Mar 31;72(2):81-90.

Sperhake JP, Tsokos M. [Postmortem bite injuries cause by a domestic cat]
Arch Kriminol. 2001 Sep-Oct;208(3-4):114-9. German.

Romain N, Brandt-Casadevall C, Dimo-Simonin N, Michaud K, Mangin P, Papilloud J. Post-mortem castration by a dog: a case report. Med Sci Law. 2002 Jul;42(3):269-71.

Tsokos M, Schulz F, Püschel K. Unusual injury pattern in a case of postmortem animal depredation by a domestic German shepherd. Am J Forensic Med Pathol. 1999 Sep;20(3):247-50.

Today's A Good Poop life lesson: Don't die alone with animals in the house if you want an open coffin. Man's best friend my ass.

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I was under the impression that it's fairly unusual for dogs to eat their owners corpses after death.

Posted by: Left_Wing_Fox | April 9, 2008 3:51 PM

I hate to say it, but aren't forensic science journals sort of like cheating? Half the articles, you can just hear someone going "and you won't BELIEVE what happened to THIS one."

Posted by: tim | April 9, 2008 6:25 PM

Yes, the dog one sounded unusual to me too. I wasn't aware that even wild dogs would eat fallen pack members?

Posted by: Earthceuticals | April 11, 2008 10:31 PM

@LeftWingFox:

In my forensic training, we were repeatedly told that dogs of dead owners will generally wait a long time before beginning to consume said owner. I'm not sure whether it's been tested, but it was taken as a decent rule-of-thumb starting point that a dog-chewed decedent had been down for at least a couple days.

Cats, on the other hand, begin to dine pretty much immediately after the first missed feeding.

Posted by: madder | April 14, 2008 2:33 PM

Hey, the poor animals do eventually get hungry, you know.

Posted by: Tlazolteotl | April 14, 2008 2:43 PM