Show Notes
When a body is discovered in an unusual place, how do we determine when that person died?
Can we narrow the window down to minutes and seconds?
And why is time of death important in the world of forensics?
In Part 1 of our forensic science series, Dr Sophie Calabretto talks to Cosmos Magazine journalist Jacinta Bowler about determining time of death, decomposing bodies and what clues these gruesome details can unlock. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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