ABSTRACT
One of the concepts of the EDI is the psychological autopsy (PA). A very common death case review is the suicide vs. accident, and then the accident vs. homicide and suicide vs. homicide. Undetermined deaths-for which it has been ruled that there is no clear and convincing evidence of one manner of death-are also common death case reviews. ‚e PA is best summed up as looking into a person’s mind and lifestyle to determine why and how a person died. ‚e same concepts can be, but o·en are not, applied to the probability of a person being susceptible to in¸uence by other persons, life circumstances, and his or her environment. It is not the same as proling: to determine a class of suspects or if a person ts the class. ‚e application of the PA in probate cases is self-explanatory in that it assists with determining the mental state of a person at the time of death or when a will or other legal document was executed. In civil litigation it is o·en specic to the person, event, or evidence taken one component at a time. ‚e ELI is a concept that can be applied to a person’s actions and motives, opportunities for an event to happen, and incident scenes.
