The
present study examines a case in which signs of incised wounds were found on
skeletal remains of a murder victim. The authors have studied the skeletal
remains and the dynamics of the murder in order to reconstruct the kind of
weapon utilized.
The bones examined belonged to a woman that had disappeared
from almost 10 years and where recovered from the garden of the house belonging
to her former partner. The main feature of these remains was the discovery of a
damage of a thoracic vertebra (T1).
When the object of forensic investigation is constituted by
skeletal remains, obtaining information is more difficult because of the
absence of soft tissues. The source of information is represented by bones
only. Certainly there are some missing tiles that can't be regained: many
lesions or trauma that involves soft tissues don’t involve bones and this is
why the pathologist is the only one that can suggest the cause of death.
The
most important information is obtained by the study of lesions, and what kind
of object caused it. A forensic anthropologist can state that there are some potentially
fatal lesions. Yet, without soft tissues, it is not possible to gain certainty
about the presence of other lesions, not involving bones that could have caused
the death.Read More....
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