- IDENTIFICATION (4).

IDENTIFICATION OF THE DEAD

Through:

• Primary Physical Characteristics
• Secondary Physical Characteristics
• IDENTITY of DECOMPOSED or SKELETAL REMAINS

1- Primary Physical Characteristics:

- characteristics which are very difficult for a person to change during life.
Some of these characteristics will appear to alter postmortem:

-Sex.
-Age :- external appearances, internal degenerative disease, bones, joints.
-Height or stature :-
N.B. height of Body differs from that in life by up to 2-3 cm, due to joint and muscle relaxation.

-Weight :- Body often appears of different build to that in life
-Race.
-DNA (unique to every individual.)
-Fingerprints

2- Secondary Physical Characteristics:

-characteristics which can change during life,either deliberately by deceased or as a result
of medical/dental interference.
-Some of these characteristics will appear to alter postmortem:-

-Skin colour (alters post mortem).
-Eyes :- more useful in caucasians than negroid & mongoloid races.
Colour can alter PM
-Teeth :- very resistant and bear much useful information.
-Hair :- colour, style, length, beard/moustache.
-Scars :- surgical procedures and prostheses.
-Tattooing :- seen even if the body is putrefied.
-External peculiarities :- circumcision, moles, warts.
-Deformities.
-Clothing and other objects as Jewelery,Cosmetics.

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IDENTIFICATION OF THE LIVING

METHODS OF IDENTIFICATION:

The above of dead +

1-Personal impression (visual identification):

Personal impression depends on features such as

hair, moustache and beard,any gait particularities,

voice characters or hand movement during speech .

2-Photography.

3-Handwriting:

-Possible for experts to identify a person .
-we can know either the person left or right handed.
-Methods used include :

• photographic enlargement,
• analysis of ink,
• analysis of paper.

see identification (1) here...

see identification (2) here...

see identification (3) here...



Thank you for attention,

"The end of IDENTIFICATION"

Dr Ibrahim