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Indoor cats scavenging behind closed doors

We report a rare case of postmortem scavenging by cats in Japan involving the skeletonized remains of a woman in her 80s discovered in a locked, garbage‐filled room. The body was missing many bones, including vertebrae other than the atlas with odontoid process. The remaining bon...

Elucidating the etiology of idiopathic spontaneous intraperitoneal hemorrhage

Free blood within the abdominal cavity (hemoperitoneum) presents a significant diagnostic and interpretive challenge. It may result from trauma or occur spontaneously in association with underlying disease conditions. When no source of fatal hemorrhage is identified, the implicat...

Commentary on: Sağlam İ, Aslan R, Akgür SA, Kurtulmuş Y. Abuse of gabapentinoids in...

Correction to “The development of two fast genotyping assays for the differentiation of...

Obstructive coronary ostial thromboemboli mimicking vegetation

Sudden cardiac death (SCD) in adolescents is rare and often attributed to previously undiagnosed cardiac conditions, including genetic cardiomyopathies, congenital anomalies, conduction disorders, or thrombotic events. In atypical cases, intracardiac or vascular thromboembolism m...

Quantitative study of zero‐amplitude sample padding in iOS AAC encoding: Consistency...

Zero‐amplitude sample padding ("zero‐padding") is automatically inserted during Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) encoding by iOS applications such as Apple Voice Memos, potentially affecting the reliability of forensic audio stream hashing by altering decoded audio data stru...

Optimization and validation of a method for rapid quantitation of fentanyl in seized‐drug...

The rise of illicitly manufactured fentanyl and fentanyl‐related substances has overwhelmed seized‐drug laboratories and resulted in an explosive surge of analysis requests, increasing backlogs and turn‐around times. Direct analysis in real time (DART) ionization in combination w...

Canadian water‐related fatalities: Demographic, situational, and environmental risk...

Unintentional water‐related deaths are an ongoing global problem, despite being named by the United Nations as one of the leading preventable causes of death. To address the need for enhanced analysis of drowning risk factors, including demographic and situational conditions that...

Acetaminophen pharmacobezoar following a massive suicidal ingestion

A 61‐year‐old woman died in intensive care 3 days after a massive acetaminophen intoxication with suicidal intent. Investigations at the scene revealed at least 350 empty 500 mg capsule shells, whose content had presumably been consumed. A forensic autopsy, whole‐body computed to...

Drug‐facilitated crime: A review of findings between 2019 and 2023

Drug‐facilitated crime (DFC) is a criminal act (e.g., assault, robbery, or sexual assault) in which the perpetrator uses drugs to impair the victim's ability to resist, remember, or recognize the crime being committed. Ethanol is commonly implicated in DFC casework, but limi...

A retrospective analysis of decedent fluvial transport

The search for human remains from river systems presents significant challenges due to the complex and variable nature of fluvial environments. Estimating transport distances is critical for defining search areas; yet, no reliable predictive methods exist. Scientific literature o...