Thursday, March 6, 2014

ACCURACY OF FORENSIC ENTOMOLOGY

Basically, pathologists can estimate the time of death based on several medical parameters but these are only valid for the first few hours after death, becoming less valuable after that and usually not used beyond about 72 hours. Forensic entomology is the most  accurate and frequently the primary method in determining time of death when more than a day or two have elapsed (Kashyap, 1989).