Imagine that you are at a crime scene. You find skeletal remains, but the skeleton is not complete as some of the smaller bones are missing. The bones are within a twenty feet radius. Based on this information, what would you be able to ascertain about the time of death and the individual who was killed?

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Libby Frye

24 March, 14:20

Imagine that you are at a crime scene. You find skeletal remains, but the skeleton is not complete as some of the smaller bones are missing. The bones are within a twenty feet radius. Based on this information, what would you be able to ascertain about the time of death and the individual who was killed?

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Dario Foster · Answer 1

The body takes 8 to 12 years to decompose to a skeleton, and you could assume that the death was relatively violent, or decomposed in an open area exposed to animals.