Introduction
Material and methods
Sample collection
Age and sex | Stage of decomposition | Appearance of intervertebral discs | Postmortem interval | DNA concentration | Degradation index |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
36, m A | Fresh | No abnormalities | < 3 days | 34.02 ± 0.92 | 1.11 ± 0.02 |
68, m | Fresh | No abnormalities | < 3 days | 32.23 ± 1.16 | 1.15 ± 0.05 |
50, m | Fresh | No abnormalities | < 3 days | 14.42 ± 0.52 | 1.13 ± 0.01 |
87, f | Fresh | No abnormalities | < 3 days | 39.71 ± 0.79 | 2.62 ± 0.06 |
28, m | Fresh | No abnormalities | < 3 days | 5.28 ± 0.44 | 1.68 ± 0.03 |
46, m | Fresh | No abnormalities | < 3 days | 13.89 ± 0.02 | 1.24 ± 0.05 |
70, f | Fresh | No abnormalities | < 3 days | 4.64 ± 0.18 | 1.06 ± 0.02 |
Mean | 20.74 ± 13.87 | 1.42 ± 0.54 | |||
39, m | Early | No abnormalities | unknown | 8.40 ± 1.09 | 1.20 ± 0.01 |
24, m | Early | No abnormalities | unknown | 19.63 ± 0.00 | 1.41 ± 0.02 |
28, m | Early | No abnormalities | unknown | 14.93 ± 2.50 | 1.38 ± 0.02 |
64, m | Early | No abnormalities | < 14 days | 24.24 ± 0.00 | 2.80 ± 0.07 |
47, m | Early | No abnormalities | approx. 4 days | 3.67 ± 0.42 | 1.39 ± 0.02 |
70, f | Early | Brown discoloration | < 7 days | 20.03 ± 0.00 | 1.63 ± 0.04 |
65, m | Early | Brown discoloration | < 10 days | 11.45 ± 1.96 | 1.37 ± 0.01 |
52, m | Early | Brown discoloration | unknown | 1.51 ± 0.09 | 1.29 ± 0.06 |
61, f | Early | Green discoloration | unknown | 5.50 ± 0.52 | 4.46 ± 0.26 |
61, m | Early | Green discoloration | unknown | 13.10 ± 0.05 | 1.29 ± 0.02 |
Mean | 13.19 ± 7.12 | 1.59 ± 0.48 | |||
60, m | Advanced | No abnormalities | unknown | 3.74 ± 0.26 | 1.64 ± 0.07 |
31, m | Advanced | Brown discoloration | unknown | 12.00 ± 0.04 | 1.45 ± 0.09 |
66, f | Advanced | Brown discoloration | unknown | 4,57 ± 0.18 | 1.47 ± 0.02 |
45, m | Advanced* | Brown discoloration | unknown | 4.04 ± 0.14 | 1.50 ± 0.02 |
47, m | Advanced | Brown discoloration | < 21 days | 16.05 ± 0.83 | 2.02 ± 0.13 |
65, m•B | Advanced* | Brown discoloration | 21–28 days | 11.41 ± 0.98 | 1.92 ± 0.03 |
Mean | 7.06 ± 3.93 | 2.05 ± 1.15 | |||
Others | |||||
79, m | Exhumed | No abnormalities | approx. 2 months | 70.20 ± 0.00 | 1.67 ± 0.07 |
83, m | Exhumed | No abnormalities | approx. 2 months | 13.51 ± 0.05 | 1.52 ± 0.05 |
84, m | Exhumed | No abnormalities | approx. 2 months | 5.31 ± 0.58 | 1.48 ± 0.04 |
48, m D | Severe burns | No abnormalities | < 1 day | 15.11 ± 0.30 | 1.41 ± 0.03 |
58, f | Severe burns | No abnormalities | < 1 day | 14.12 ± 0.21 | 1.12 ± 0.00 |
58, m | Most severe burns | No abnormalities | < 1 day | 3.13 ± 0.24 | 1.11 ± 0.01 |
57, f C | Drowned | No abnormalities | approx. 1 month | 11.40 ± 0.00 | 1.53 ± 0.04 |