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CRIME RECONSTRUCTION, A TOOL TO SOLVE MYSTERY AND ACHIEVE JUSTICE - AN INTERESTING CRIME SCENE REPORT

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

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• Death Investigation and Causes of Death

Abstract

Objective: Crime reconstruction is the forensic science discipline in which one gains "explicit knowledge of the series of events that surround the commission of a crime using physical evidence and their interrelationships". It is a crime mystery solved by crime reconstruction. Methodology: The author had investigated this crime scene, reconstructed and solved the mystery. A decomposed dead body of a boy aged about 18 years old, found under a tamarind tree in the western side of the trunk with a plant rope around the neck. On the eastern side of trunk dried bloodstain found on the floor. The relatives and villagers have alleged the crime scene as murder. Result: The author reconstructed the crime scene as follows. This boy had committed suicide using a plant cord as ligature among a branch in the eastern side. Since the body was hanging for more than a day, blood discharged from the hanging body, and trickled down as found in the eastern side floor. Then the hanging creeper plant spontaneously at the middle of the plant rope and fallen down. On the way to fall, the dead body fell on a V shaped branch under hanging point and that changed the direction of fall to opposite side. i.e. fallen in western side tree floor, as found in the crime scene now. The blood pool found in the eastern side of the floor under the tree while dead body in the western side of the tree trunk. Conclusion: The manner and cause of death of an alleged homicide explained based on crime reconstruction and ruled out homicide. At length the family members of the deceased too accepted the crime reconstruction. Finally, the police closed the case as “Death by suicidal hanging" based on crime reconstruction report and autopsy report.

DOI

10.21608/ejfsat.2020.39034.1163

Keywords

Forensic science, Crime scene, Suspicious death, Crime reconstruction

Authors

First Name

T. Nataraja

Last Name

Moorthy

MiddleName

Nataraja

Affiliation

Diagnostic and Allied Health Science, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Management and Science University, Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia

Email

nattrajamoorthy@gmail.com

City

Shah Alam

Orcid

0000.0001-6709-2833

First Name

T. Natraja

Last Name

Moorthy

MiddleName

N

Affiliation

Management and Science University, Shah Alam, Selangor State, MALAYSIA

Email

natrajamoorthy@rediffmail.com

City

Shah Alam

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Volume

20

Article Issue

4

Related Issue

18600

Issue Date

2020-12-01

Receive Date

2020-08-13

Publish Date

2020-12-01

Page Start

85

Page End

89

Print ISSN

1687-0875

Online ISSN

2535-1915

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https://ejfsat.journals.ekb.eg/article_124101.html

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https://ejfsat.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=124101

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8

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Case Reports

Type Code

448

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

The Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences and Applied Toxicology

Publication Link

https://ejfsat.journals.ekb.eg/

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Created At

22 Jan 2023