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Joseph Scott Morgan, a professor of forensics, was mentioned as the author of this book and also a death investigator with thousands of cases under his belt. He spoke about his experiences with death investigations and the specifics of decomposition in the context of Melissa's case.
Probably closer to 10,000.
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Joseph Scott Morgan, a professor of forensics, was mentioned as the author of this book and also a death investigator with thousands of cases under his belt. He spoke about his experiences with death investigations and the specifics of decomposition in the context of Melissa's case.
Probably closer to 10,000.
You have no torso to connect. You got nothing. You don't. You're given very limited, you know, very limited evidence to draw upon, to do an analysis.
When you begin to think about an investigation, how exactly would a skull become separated from the rest of the skeleton? How far along in the decomposition process is the skull?
Well, there's a lot to go on there relative to this. When you begin to think about an investigation, how exactly would a skull become separated from the rest of the skeleton? How far along in the decomposition process is the skull?
So it's going to accelerate this event. But here's the curious thing. The skull was actually recovered in April. So we're coming out of the cooler months. So that's going to kind of skew your data a little bit relative to how long this would have taken.