Fig. 1
On location – Death scenes that warrant a board certified senior forensic pathologist to travel on location and perform a full body investigation with forensic scientists and photography usually are “extraordinarily extraordinary”. Indoors or outdoors work [a: simulated/staged teaching death scene mock-up showing protective gear (arrow) – the body will be fully undressed, without cutting clothes, and then turned over and back while obtaining a detailed body surface inspection; b: outdoors death scene with burn victim on passenger seat (arrow) in a -15 deg C winter night with ice and snow covered roads] usually is problematic on several levels; at this particular death scene with the burnt car, several specialists repeatedly fell to the ground due to extremely slippery and steep ground. Undressing and examining a body from all angles (c: deep hand / finger injury, details in D through F) requires careful preservation of losely attached evidence so that even an attacker’s hair remains in place (c, d: dressed body; e, f: undressed). Attacker was a cat in this instance