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

-The rate method:
As I understood, this method is applyed by analyzing or making comparisons between a proces (of a person behavior, for example) that we know as common, and the change that it presents since the moment of death. For example, the rigor moris (which is a change of body cells becoming rigid), the change of body temperature, or the putrefaction time.

-The concurrence method:
This method is really logical and exciting at the same time, because with it, forensics are able to prove that their hypothesis are true or not. This method is based on cheking elements of the person or environment that could tell us some specific details of the death hour, that could agree with the theories we might have thought before. For example, as the lecture says, a wrist watch stopped by a blow during an assault, the extent of digestion of the last meal (of the dead person) that was known.

5. What factors are considered in Algor Mortis?

-The size of the body.
-Clothing and coverings.
-Movement and humidity of the air.
-Immersion in water.
-Etc.

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

It does affect it higly because the conditions of the enviroment are crucial in order to determine the precise time in which a body just passed away. The heat, the cold and the climatic situations are huge factors that lead into conclusions, with them, forensic scients can make an hypothesis about when does the body stopped working.

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

Well, those methods are really helpful to scientist in order to find the time of death of the body, they are very precise in the aproximations and truyle a really useful tool to find out the answers to their questions. Each method as I said is really precise and good, the results, whatever method you're using will be really similar.