Blood stain patterns of hairs in place of detection corpse as an object of forensic investigations

Yu.I. Pigolkin¹, E.N. Leonova¹, M.N. Nagornov¹, A.M. Shestakov², A.S. Prokhorenko¹, K.S. Korolyuva¹

¹Chair of Forensic Medicine
²Chair of operative surgery and topographic anatomy of the Medical University SBEI HPE «First Moscow State Medical University named after I.M. Sechenov» the Ministry of Health of Russia, Moscow

In the article have seen the questions related to identifying blood stain pattern at the accident site. Despite of high identifying importance of blood stain pattern, prints of scalp, stained with

blood, in the scientific literature have not been described, although oftimes met on the place of corpse was detected. Prints of scalp in 20 bio-manikins were obtained during experiment.

As a marking formation substance was used fibrolysic blood of corpses with a duration of postmortem period 6-12 hours. In each print were identified central and peripheral areas, which

have had their morphological features. Peripheral zone has great diagnostic significance that it reflects the print elements of the separate hairs, which vary depending on their length. The

data obtained can be used in the inspection of the place of accident and the implementation of identification and situational expert assessments.

Keywords: print, scalp, hair length.

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