Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, Karnataka, India.
Identification of an individual is one of the requisites in establishing the corpus delicti. Here, we discuss a case of establishing corpus delicti based on the continuance of the vascular groove on the endocranial surface, by matching two pieces of skull bone that were recovered at the crime scene and preserved at autopsy.
Cranial groove, identification, fragmented skull
