TY - JOUR PY - 1991// TI - Investigation of death through body writing: a case study JO - Journal of forensic sciences A1 - Taylor, L. L. A1 - Hnilica, V. SP - 1607 EP - 1613 VL - 36 IS - 5 N2 - Various surfaces or substrates are often encountered in the examination of questioned writing; however, no writing is more interesting than that found on the human body nor more challenging when the writing in question is linked to a death investigation. The body of an 18-year-old male was brought to the State Crime Laboratory, Little Rock, Arkansas, with a gunshot wound to the head and several messages written on his arms and chest. This paper will discuss the examination of evidence used to determine the manner of death through a cooperative effort between the Medical Examiner's Section and the Questioned Document Section of the Crime Laboratory.

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