Journal of Punjab Academy of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology
SCOPUS
  • Year: 2004
  • Volume: 4
  • Issue: 1

Dead Can Tell Tales- A Report of Two Exhumed Bodies

  • Author:
  • B. R. Sharma1, D. Harish2, Virendar Pal Singh3
  • Total Page Count: 4
  • Published Online: Jun 1, 2004
  • Page Number: 29 to 32

1Reader, Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Govt. Medical College & Hospital, Chandigarh, India

2Senior Lecturer, Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Govt. Medical College & Hospital, Chandigarh, India

3Demonstrator, Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Govt. Medical College & Hospital, Chandigarh, India

Abstract

At times some skeletal remains may be recovered from an open land, ditches, rubbish dumps, etc., or a skeleton may be exhumed from a home-courtyard, a burial ground, or even ordinary places during excavation for new constructions. It has been documented that examination of skeletal remains under such circumstances, by a forensic expert, may help to reveal a crime, which might have lost sight of otherwise. The presented case reports are an attempt to analyze the extent to which an old saying that “dead can speak and speak the truth; we only need a patient and discerning mind to ‘hear’ and understand what they speak” is valid.

Keywords

Identification, Bones, Exhumation, Skeleton