Forensic: The Case Of Ricky Mccormick

The body later was identified as Juan Antonio Guerra-Torres. Sheriff Deputies discovered that his body had been shot several times and then his head was decapitated and his limbs had been dismembered and that it appeared that this all appeared as post-mortem.

This conclusion lines up with what the textbook states about determining a time of death. The textbook lists many factors that can affect body decomposition including temperature, rainfall, and humidity (Lyman 284). Obviously it would be extremely difficult if not impossible for investigators to factor in all these variables given the fourth months between when the body was dumped until it was found. This makes it clear that investigators could not truly determine an exact time of death.

Scott Lee Peterson was once married to Lacy Peterson in California. They were expecting their first child together when Laci disappeared on December 24th, 2002, Laci was 8 months pregnant. Scott was not immediately named a suspect in Laci’s disappearance. Scott told detectives that he was out fishing that morning 90 miles from their Modesto home. The detectives were thrown off by how calm Scott was and Scott’s lack of questioning within the first few weeks of Laci being gone.

Apart from the clues given they still had one more mystery to solve and it was who the boy was. Investigators still wanted to continue with the case so they kept the boy in a morgue. Many people from 10 different stated came to look at the boy to see if he was a missing family member. Unfortunately, nobody claimed him. Foot prints and fingerprints of the boy were taken and compared to hospital records but nothing was found. 400,000 flyers of the boy were sent out and even the AMA sent out a description but nothing came through. The fact that there is no proof that the boy even existed led to many theories of who

Daniel Morcombe, aged 13, was snatched from Woombye’s local bus stop under Kiel Mountain Road Bridge of the Sunshine Coast several kilometers north of The Big Pineapple. He disappeared on Sunday, 7 December 2003. Morcombe intended to get to Sunshine Plaza Shopping Centre via the 1:35pm bus to buy Christmas presents for his family and get his haircut, yet he never returned.

A witness said she saw Yusuf getting into a blue car before he disappeared. His body was found on November 8 in the abandoned E. P. Johnson elementary school by a school janitor who was looking for a place to urinate. Bell 's body was found clothed in the brown cut-off shorts he was last seen wearing, though they had a piece of masking tape stuck to them. He had been hit over the head twice and the cause of death was strangulation. Police did not immediately link his disappearance to the previous killings.

The body was found by men collecting peat to use as coal for fuel. The men were cutting only a metre below the ground when they unearthed the body.

Soon after his body was pulled from the river the extent of his injuries was discovered. His body upon retrieval was badly bloated from the death and decay of being submerged in the water for several days before he was found.

his aorta before coming to lodge in his upper body. Furthermore, a final autopsy report has not

Upon arriving on scene, I observed a body laying on the ground in the driveway of the residence, near the road. The body was laying behind a red dodge truck.

The victim was taken to Fairmont Regional Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. Using fingerprints collected post-mortem, the victim was identified as 28-year-old Corey Seville Glover of Philadelphia.

They checked on him the next morning on the date of July 22 2015 and he was found dead. It says that he had died from natural causes. However, This shouldn’t be taken lightly. If

Wuornos’ 6th victim was 50-year old delivery driver named Eugene Burress. A few days after being pronounced missing, his work truck along with his body was found by a family picnicking. He had been shot twice with a .22-calibre pistol. A month later, former police chief Dick Humphrey was reported missing by his wife. A week later his body was found in Marion County. He had been shot seven times with a .22 pistol. After two months, the Wuornos’ eighth victim, a 60-year-old truck driver named Walter Antonio body was found in Dixie Count, naked on the side of the road. Examiners concluded he was, shot three times in the back and once in the head, also with a .22 firearm and has been dead less than 24 hours (Reynolds, 2004).

He left the area prior to police arrival. We canvassed the area and were unable to locate

mysteriously found dead in one of the rooms. Although he was highly esteemed for his wealth and