Cadaver decomposition is a natural phenomenon intimately affected by numerous organisms such as insects, fungi, animals, and bacteria where they use the decaying body as their nutrition source. These organisms can be utilized in forensic science to estimate the post-mortem interval (PMI). The post-mortem interval refers to the time that has passed since the death of a person until the body was found. Forensic entomology is one of the popular approaches where successive colonization of insects on cadaver is studied to estimate PMI. However, sometime this method does not provide consistent results due to lack of insect activities during cold environment conditions or when crime scene is indoor. Therefore, a new approach is needed to aid forensic scientists to estimate PMI. Recently, researchers have noted that microbial communities have shown a predictable and clockwise successional pattern on decomposing cadavers and suggested this could be utilized to estimate PMI when this approach is etched with other established methods. The purpose of this review is to summarize some of the studies that have been conducted on the utility of microbial communities in estimating PMI and discuss the role of microbial communities in cadaver decomposition. 

This article discusses the factors for drowning death such as age and sex. The article provides data from Ukraine, where the mortality rate from drowning is 4.69 per 100,000 population, which ranks it 31st in the world. 

The aim of article focuses on documenting the characteristic of drowning death cases in different age and sex groups in the Ivano-Frankivsk region of Ukraine, where 178 drowning cases were analyzed from 2010 to 2014. Analyzed drowning cases for which autopsies were performed at the Ivano-Frankivsk Autopsy Room from January 1, 2010, through December 31, 2014. 

The article concludes that age and sex are important predictors of drowning and that individualized prevention strategies are needed for different population groups. The data show that drowning mortality was highest among men aged 31 to 40 years (41 of the total 141 cases; 29.07%), and mortality among women was highest among those aged 61 to 70 years (7 of the total 37 cases; 18.92%) and 71 to 80 years (7 of the total 37 cases; 18.92%). The ratio of male to female deaths was almost 4 : 1, with a mortality rate of 79.21% for men and 20.79% for women. The review also identifies an association between alcohol consumption and drowning deaths, suggesting that targeted prevention efforts are needed for high-risk populations, such as young adults and men. The article emphasizes the importance of further research to better understand the underlying factors and develop effective prevention strategies.

According to experts’ opinion which was also confirmed by many different experiments on handwriting, most errors made by document examiners result from a misjudgment (or misinterpretation) in the significance of a difference found between the questioned and exemplar materials. The article introduces a number of ideas for improving methodology for examination of handwriting, especially how to understand one of the main principles respecting writing identification that a writer cannot ameliorate his maximum writing ability or skill without effort, practice and/or training over a period of time, or how to prepare writing standards for examination of distorted writing.

Despite their presence at crime scenes, latent fingerprints are generally invisible to the human eye. we first ground the gram flour in a grinder after roasting the gram flour on a burner. using an ostrich hair brush, we applied the powder to various surfaces to develop fingerprints. Due to the powder’s low adherence on non-porous surfaces, it may be applied to a variety of contrasting surfaces and generates diverse effects. we first compared the results of our powder to those of previously published household-based powders, and then we evaluated the powders based on surface properties and other factors, such as treated surfaces, wet surfaces, rough surfaces, and more. Due to its non-toxic nature and low cost, this powder has the potential to be a low-cost and eco-friendly replacement in police practice for visualising latent fingerprints on a larger scale. 

Burglary crimes inflict a significant toll on society, both financially and psychologically. Most of these cases are never solved, many times because no visible signs of entry or forensic evidence are found at the scene.

In this report, we detail a police case involving a series of burglaries in Israel, all of which lacked any visible signs of forced entry. Thirteen burglaries were initially linked by the so-called forensic intelligence method and the analysis of additional forensic data obtained during the inspection of the scene and in the forensic laboratory.

Linking seemingly unrelated crime scenes through forensic data analysis can increase the effectiveness of case investigations.