The Process

4. What methods are commonly used to find the time of death?

*The rate method: which consists in measuring the changes that the body had in that time, if it was initiated of stopped by the investigation.

*The concurrence method: which consists in comparing the events that were in the time of the murder and in the time of the investigation.

5. What factors are considered in Algor Mortis?

Body temperature, radiation, convection and evaporation.

6. How does the environment affect the time of death?

The environment affects the body, so it means that the environment make changes in the body, and that changes perjudicated the time of death, and of course if the temperature of the body is the same of the environment, we can't give a time of death.

7. What can you tell about the different methods of temperature reading of the body? Do they make a difference in the results?

I think that they are necessary, but i don't think that they gives you an exact answer to tell who was the guilty person, but it serves like a reference and they make a big diffentiation in the results, because now you are ubicated in what time did the murdered take place.