Australian Facility News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

The location of human remains is performed primarily through the aid of cadaver detection dogs, which rely on the malodour produced through decomposition of decaying bodies. Malefactors will attempt to conceal these putrefactive odours through chemical additions such as lime, which is also wrongly believed to accelerate decomposition and prevent the identification of the victim. Despite the frequency of lime in forensic applications, to date no research has been performed to determine its effect on the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) released during human decomposition. This research was the...

An engineer, a scientist and a retired FBI chemist-turned-professor are hoping to find where the 19-year-old's body is buried and are using volatile organic compounds found in soil to help them search.

Behind a razor wire-topped fence in far western Sydney, a world first research experiment on the dead that could help police solve murders is taking place at a secret bush facility.

Entomological evidence is commonly used to estimate a post-mortem interval (PMI) in medicolegal investigations of deceased individuals. A PMI from insect-derived data can be estimated by either examining the thermal development rates of larvae or analysing the carrion insect succession process. The larval development method is well-established and reliable, while the succession method is less reliable as it depends on the predictable sequences of species arriving at a cadaver, which is a highly variable process. The effect of abiotic factors such as temperature and season on succession have be...

Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) is a geophysical tool that images the subsurface and has gained acceptance across a myriad of fields. It is because of this non-destructive method that GPR has been used effectively in archaeological and forensic prospection to locate unmarked or clandestine burials where minimal disturbance is imperative. Prevailing scenarios that are commonly seen in both forensic cases and the archaeological record are the use of both lime (CaO or Ca(OH)2) and gypsum (CaSO4.2H2O). The custom of human remains covered in lime or gypsum has been linked to several phenomena perpet...