She had not seen the extent of the movement in this study, but agreed the findings could impact on crime investigations. It was because Ms Wilson had filmed the decomposition of the donor's body that she discovered that the limbs continued to move.ĭr Xanthe Mallet worked on the case of Karlie Pearce-Stephenson and her daughter Khandalyce. This is the first time a time-lapse camera had been used to capture human decomposition, and it confirmed the equation could be used in the Australian environment. "Until we had AFTER, most of the science on how bodies decomposed was based on the northern hemisphere, where the climate is different, the weather is different and even the insects can be different," she said. In that study, Ms Wilson used the time-lapse camera to test whether a scientific equation to estimate the decomposition of a body in the northern hemisphere was applicable to the Australian environment.
The findings follow Ms Wilson's previous work, published last month in the journal Forensic Science International: Synergy. "It's important for victims and victims' families, and in a lot of cases it gives the victim a voice to tell their last story." Building on research
"This research is very important to help law enforcement to solve crime and it also assists in disaster investigations," Ms Wilson said. Alyson Wilson was in Mexico in January to help classify Mayan-era skeletal remains.
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