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24.06.2022 | Original Article

“Salt mummification” — atypical method of embalming a corpse

verfasst von: Łukasz Szleszkowski, Marcin Kadej, Rafał Ogórek, Agata Thannhäuser, Michał A. Dobrowolski, Tomasz Jurek

Erschienen in: International Journal of Legal Medicine | Ausgabe 6/2022

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Abstract

It is extremely rare for table salt to be used to preserve a dead body in criminal cases. In the case presented here, after the death of his 85-year-old mother, a son kept her body preserved in table salt for about 2 years to extort social benefits (pension). Before her death, the woman had been hospitalised twice due to chronic diseases. The case has been examined by the multi-disciplinary team. The unusual conditions in which the corpse was stored influenced its good condition (close to mummification), with limited colonisation of the corpse by necrophagous insects and insects involved in soft tissue biolysis (i.e. selected Diptera or Coleoptera). The use of table salt inhibited the growth of most fungi which would normally be present on a corpse stored in ambient conditions, and the corpse’s surface was colonised by halophilic fungus (Scopulariopsis brevicaulis).

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Titel: “Salt mummification” — atypical method of embalming a corpse
verfasst von: Łukasz Szleszkowski
Marcin Kadej
Rafał Ogórek
Agata Thannhäuser
Michał A. Dobrowolski
Tomasz Jurek
Publikationsdatum: 24.06.2022
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Erschienen in: International Journal of Legal Medicine / Ausgabe 6/2022
Print ISSN: 0937-9827
Elektronische ISSN: 1437-1596
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-022-02855-5

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