ABSTRACT
The investigation of any death is a team effort between the law enforcement investigator, crime scene investigator, and the medical examiner’s personnel. An autopsy is an after death examination of a body to determine the cause, manner, and mechanism of death. The main reasons for an autopsy are to determine the cause and manner of death. Entomology, the study of bugs, can assist in the determination of the time of death. The medical examiner then determines the cause and manner of death. Death investigations include suicide, accidental, natural, and homicide investigations. The death scene of a possible overdose of drugs should be investigated with the same thoroughness of a homicide. Death by electrocution has different causes and manners of death ranging from accidental death to suicide. Sudden infant death syndrome is the sudden death of an otherwise healthy infant.
