Phantasm Darkstar

Photography: Edward Padama
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04.22.12 (by Phantasm Darkstar)

criminalprofiler:

Time of Death

General factors used to estimate time of death are:

Body temperature, rigor mortis, postmortem lividity, appearance of the eyes, stomach contents, stage of decomposition and evidence suggesting a change in the victim’s normal routine.

Body Temperature:

• drops 2 to 3 degrees in the first hour after death; and 1 to 1.5 degrees for each subsequent hour up to 18 hours

Rigor Mortis:

• appears in the head 5 to 6 hours after death; in the upper body after about 12 hours; and in the entire body after about 18 hours.
• after about 36 hours, rigor mortis usually disappears in the same sequence that it appeared. 
• any weapon tightly clenched in the victim’s hand as a result of cadaveric spasm indicates suicide rather than murder

Postmortem Lividity:

• starts one half to 3 hours after death and is congealed in the capillaries in 4 to 5 hours
• maximum lividity occurs within 10 to 12 hours
• the location of lividity can indicate whether a body was moved after death

Eyes:

• partial constriction of the pupil occurs in about 7 hours
• in 12 hours, the cornea appears cloudy

Stomach Contents:

• the investigator should determine when and what the victim last ate - if any vomit is present, it should be preserved as evidence and submitted for examination

Water:

• a dead body usually sinks in water and remains immersed for 8 to 10 days in warm water, or 2 to 3 weeks in cold water - it them rises to the surface if not restricted
• the outer skin loosens in 5 to 6 days, and the nails separate in 2 to 3 weeks

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fearlesslove13:

beautilation:

 I like Belle a lot. She was kind of a loner, but she wasn’t sad over it or desperate to fit in. She didn’t give a shit that the hottest piece of man-ass in town wanted her, because he was a total semi-retarded douchebag and she knew she could do better. She wasn’t motivated by love or the need to have a significant other to do anything. In fact, even when she began to fall in love with the beast and she got news that her father was sick, she was like “iight I’m feelin you Beast but my dad is like dying in the woods so I should prooobbably go”. And then when Gaston was like being a complete asshole by getting everyone to raid the castle and kill the Beast, she broke the FUCK out of that cellar and rode a horse to rescue her man, after she nursed her father back to health. And we don’t even need to mention the fact that her man was an 8 foot Chewbacca/buffalo hybrid, she saw that he was a kind person who loved her and she fell in love with him. Like, seriously, Belle is basically the coolest woman ever. 

Forever this.

ponderful:

Lady Godiva by John Collier. ca 1898.