/r/ExamineDeath
This sub features videos, pics, albums and articles that explain in detail how people have lost their lives or have come very close to it.
This sub features videos and articles that explain in detail how people have lost their lives or have come very close to it.
Posting guidelines (suggestions, not strictly enforced):
Videos and articles should offer an in-depth explanation of what happened and why it happened.
"Boring" videos with mediocre production values are highly encouraged.
Documentaries and glitzy animations of the Air Crash Investigation sort are discouraged.
Government and other expert analysis is highly encouraged.
Typical true crime content is discouraged.
/r/ExamineDeath
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A Confederate soldier lies dead in the trenches of Fort Mahone, Petersburg, Virginia. April 3rd, 1865.
03:09 UTC
Stippling vs No Stippling
Can someone please show me the difference between a gunshot wound WITH stippling vs without?
I'd be so grateful! Thank you!
05:49 UTC
Here they’re about to exhume the body of a 43-year-old woman who died suddenly five years earlier, to check for foul play. Chemical analysis proved she’d died of cyanide poisoning. A suspect was charged.
11:06 UTC
Jorge Torres, Suitcase Guy
Anything?
14:43 UTC
Skeletal remains of a homeless man. The insects that had fed on him were full of Tramadol, suggesting he overdosed.
(A) A dressed body at the scene of death; (B) fly larvae found in the vicinity of the body; (C, D) skeletal remains without clothes on the autopsy table; (B, E, F) materials taken for toxicological analyses (fly larvae, muscle, bone marrow)
16:10 UTC
Looking for more info about incidents from a book
Just finished Richard Shepherd's Unnatural Causes and want to know more about some cases described there. Some sources where I can read more (except Wikipedia) and maybe some photos if possible.
List:
- Hungerford massacre
- Clapham 1988's rail crash
- Marchioness disaster on Thames
- 2002 Bali bombing
Thanks in advance
18:47 UTC
The remains of Kayhausen Boy, killed at the age of seven and found in 1922 in a bog in Germany, dated to 300-400 BCE. His arms and feet were bound together with cloth. The examination concluded that he had been stabbed three times in the neck and once on his left arm [710x640]
17:08 UTC
Dr. Calvin I. Fletcher, at Blackfoot Glacier in Glacier National Park in Montana on August 19, 1913. A few minutes later he was buried by an avalanche and severely injured, and died of his wounds within about an hour.
10:45 UTC
The double suicide of a husband (26) and wife (23) in India
Body of the deceased female partially suspending from the ceiling by a cotton cloth (single arrow), while the body of the deceased male lies on the floor with a piece of cloth hanging freely above (double arrow), other end of the cloth was tied to the ceiling
02:24 UTC
The body of Maricica Irina Cornici laid out after her death in 2005. Cornici was 23-year-old novice in a Romanian Orthodox convent and the priest (that's him with the beard I think) mistook her schizophrenia symptoms for demonic possession. Cornici died in an unauthorized "exorcism."
17:06 UTC
This is a certificate for a man who died in custody in Uruguay in 1974, less than a week after his arrest. He was “stressed” because he was being tortured.
04:32 UTC
Confederate soldier from the American Civil War. 1862
04:21 UTC
An acephalic, acardiac twin. This is a parasite with no heart, no head and incomplete upper limbs, dependent on its healthy “pump” twin’s circulatory system.
21:58 UTC
Death of a man who, under the influence of Ecstasy, slashed his arms and legs and bled out.
a and b: The body of the deceased in front of the entrance door. c and d: Blood traces in the bathroom. e: A double-edged razor blade on the bathroom floor. f and g: Bloodstains, irregular pools of blood and bloody footprints
21:50 UTC