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  • Alamo

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    Dead bodies move while decomposing, a significant find for death investigations

    Researchers at Australia's first 'human body farm' have observed that dead bodies move significantly when they decompose and believe the movement could be important in death investigations.


    Researcher Alyson Wilson made the discovery using time-lapse cameras to film the decomposition of a donor body in 30-minute intervals over 17 months.

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    Ms Wilson, a medical science undergraduate at CQUniversity, said she expected some movement in the early stages of decomposition, but was surprised to see the movement continued for the 17 months of filming.

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    "What we found was that the arms were significantly moving, so that arms that started off down beside the body ended up out to the side of the body," Ms Wilson said.

    "One arm went out and then came back in to nearly touching the side of the body again."

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    Dr Mallet, who supervised the study, said the findings were significant because investigators worked on the assumption that the position a body was found in was the position it died in — unless there was evidence the body had been moved by other people or by animals.
     

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