question archive In Hyde Park, Cincinnati, police were called to the house of a Mr
In Hyde Park, Cincinnati, police were called to the house of a Mr
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In Hyde Park, Cincinnati, police were called to the house of a Mr. Bush. He was an elderly man, whose body was found at about 10:00 am by his daughter Ellen Marx. She was visiting from Pittsburgh. She stated that she arrived at about 9:00 am at the airport, drove to her father's house and found him dead in the bathroom.
Can you narrow down the time of Mr. Bush's death even more?
In addition to Livor mortis and Rigor Mortis you measure the temperature of the corpse, which is 27.3O Celsius and the temperature in the house, which is 18oC. Given that, on average, a human body loses 10% of its heat in one hour, you can narrow down the time of death even further than before.
1. Approximately when did he die according to his temperature?
2. In case his death is ruled suspicious, can the daughter be excluded as a murder suspect?
3. In case his death occurred naturally, e.g. heart attack, could the daughter have saved him, if she had taken a flight three hours earlier?
You can use the graphs from the video/presentation Time of death, or the equation that is derived and explained in the video Algor Mortis, to draw your conclusions. Explain your thought process.
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a)
Temperature difference
= 37 - 27.3
= 9.7oC
This represents: 9.7/37 x 100% = 26.22%
A body loses 10% every hour
So 26.21% will be lost in:
26.22/10 = 2.622 hours =2 hours 37 minutes
Time of death will be approximately 2 hr 37 min before 10.00 am
= 7.23 am
b. Yes, If the death is ruled suspicious the daughter can be excluded as a murder suspect since the time of death is way before the daughter even arrived at the airport (9.00 am). Meaning the chances that she may have been with her father at his time of death (7.23 am) are very minimal, close to zero.
c. Yes. She would have saved him. She would have been early enough to offer Cardiorespiratory resuscitation (CPR) and or call for emergency help such as an ambulance. Since the dad had been dead for about 2 and a half hours, she would have found him alive
