elpanoptico
Este es un blog dedicado al crimen en español, administrado por una persona aficionada al tema.
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Tom Sturridge as DREAM in THE SANDMAN (2022)
What Happens When You Die: Four Stages of Human Decomposition
What Happens When You Die: Four Stages of Decomposition
Have you ever wondered what happens the moment you die? Not where you go in the afterlife or how your body will be handled, but have you ever wondered what happens internally? Around four minutes after your heart fails to pump oxygen to the rest of your body, it begins to self destruct. This method of self destruction is universal in its stages and in its purpose; it has no bias of character or of monetary status. Without this process of death and decay, life would cease to exist.
Stage One: Autolysis (Self-Ingestion)
Autolysis begins the moment your circulatory system and respiratory system cease to pump blood to your muscles. Without oxygen being pumped into your cells, excess carbon dioxide begins to cause cell membranes to become acidic. Once these cells rupture, they release a digestive enzyme that begins to consume your cells from the inside out.
Rigor Mortis begins generally within an hour or two after death and lasts for around 24 hours. Rigor Mortis occurs when lactic acid buildup in the muscles causes them to stiffen at unnatural angles, a lot of times defying gravity. Small blisters filled with nutrient-rich fluid form on internal organs and under the surface of the skin. When these rupture, it causes the body to form a shiny or sweaty appearance. The body begins to cool at the time of death and slowly drops an average of 1.5 degrees an hour, pending on environmental factors. Within 24 hours, the body will be the same temperature as its surrounding environment.
Fact: In cases of violent or traumatic deaths, lactic acid is built up in such high amounts in the muscles that rigor mortis can occur at the exact moment of death. For example, if someone dies from drowning in a lake, they may still be clutching a chunk of grass from trying to grab onto the bank at the moment of their death.
Livor Mortis causes areas of the body exposed to external pressure such as gravity to turn a reddish-purple color. Tardieu spots form in these areas as well due to increased pressure. These spots often resemble traumatic hemorrhaging but are a normal part of the decomposition process.
Fact: If a body is moved after death and the livor mortis is on the wrong area of the body, investigators can determine that the body was moved after death. For example, if someone died laying on their stomach, livor mortis would turn the abdomen the reddish-purple color. If someone moved the body after death and flipped them onto their back, it would show that the blood pooled in a way that would defy gravity, showing that the body was moved unnaturally.
At this point, purge fluid is often leaked through the nasal cavity from internal gases building up in the abdomen. Despite this resembling a traumatic death, it is a natural step in human decomposition. Depending on the amount of stomach contents that are left in the body, it generally takes half an hour up to six hours for the body to finish digesting and eliminating the waste from the body.
After about 24 to 26 hours the abdomen begins to turn a greenish color that generally begins in the lower quadrant of the abdomen near the pubic area. Right around this time, bloating begins to take form within the abdominal cavity due to bacterial gas build up that causes the body to bloat and change form almost to the point of the corpse’s race being undistinguishable.
In step three, or active decay, the skin begins to slip from the body in a process known as “degloving.” Degloving happens when the top layer of skin pulls away from the muscle and essentially falls off. When bodies are at this stage of decomposition and the skin makes it impossible to pull fingerprints, morticians will often slip the skin of the patient over their own fingers and extract DNA prints this way. As the body is going through active decay, internal organs and external tissues begin to liquefy and seep through open orifices on the body. Dawnie Wolfe Steadman, director of the Forensic Anthropology Center at University of Tennessee Knoxville, claims that the main cause for the large amount of tissue loss during active decay is because of fly maggots that feast on bacteria and tissues.
Did you know that a body decomposing in water decomposes at a much slower rate than a body that is exposed to air? The slowest rate of decomposition is a body that has been preserved with formaldehyde and buried in the ground, similar to American funeral customs. A body that is submerged in water while going through active decay will have a wax-like appearance that replaces the normal look of external tissues. However, the tissues of a body that decomposes in a warm and humid environment will have external tissues that have completely dried out; the body will essentially mummify itself. In cases where a person dies in a traumatic way and is mummified from external factors, any wounds they received before and after death will be preserved, though distorted in size and shape.
After soft tissues are consumed by maggots, the corpse is partially skeletonized but the tougher soft tissues like cartilage still remain. Once beetles consume the cartilage, ligaments, and tendons the final stage of decomposition begins.
Skeletal decay is the process of the surrounding environment breaking down the remainder of the body for fertilization for future plants and life. Bones generally disintegrate with time if they are subjected to a constant flow of water, gnawed on by scavengers or any other external forces that have the ability to erode them.
Did you know that the “decomposition smell” you smell when coming across an animal carcass is actually caused by a mix of gases called putrescine and cadaverine that is caused when amino acids within the body begin to break down? Although seemingly harmless, if you are in a closed environment with a corpse, these gases have the ability to compete with or displace the oxygen within your body.
A University of Kent psychologist and Arkansas Tech University behavioral scientist hypothesize that the chemical putrescine creates a fight or flight response in humans due to it signaling in the brain as an olfactory threat. In the journal ‘Frontiers of Psychology,’ four different tests were published that proved exposure to putrescine elicited cognitive reactions, similar to escaping threats.
In the first trial done in this series of studies, 60 people were given the task to open a jar and sniff the contents inside. The control group smelled ammonia, a similarly pungent smell to putrescine and the rest of the test subjects were given putrescine. Afterward, the test subjects that were given the task of smelling putrescine reacted quicker to a red dot randomly presented on a screen in the lab; this indicates that the smell made these subjects more vigilant to their surroundings.
Two of these four tests were completed on a university campus when random people were stopped and asked to participate in a smell test. In the subjects that smelled putrescine, they walked away significantly faster than those that smelled ammonia or water. This experiment was timed with a hidden stopwatch.
In the fourth and final experiment, 65 people were asked to fill out a questionnaire that was slightly scented with either putrescine, water, or ammonia; the smell was faint enough that the subjects were unaware of the scent. The subjects were given an essay that was written by someone who didn’t share their views; in this particular case, the essay was written by a Middle-Eastern exchange student in the UK who criticized Western values and predicted their decline. They were then asked to fill out the questionnaire asking how likable the essay’s author was and whether or not his ideas should be publicized. The subjects that had papers scented with putrescine were significantly more hostile towards the foreign student than those with the ammonia soaked questionnaire. This suggests that subconsciously, the scent of putrescine elicited a subsconscious defensive response.
The scientists that ran this experiment hypothesize that the chemical compound in putrescine could serve as a warning signal in the brain that is the forefront of protective responses that help us protect ourselves from potential threats.
Cold Case Blogger
Jeffrey speaking about Konerak Sinthasomphone without translator version Finally!
Fortunately this is just him speaking and not a translator.
Tengo la teoría de que es popular entre grupos delictivos por el hecho que la Santa muerte no te juzga, no le importa quien seas y lo que hagas, al final la muerte es democrática porque todos vamos a morir; me parece que también es popular en personas que tienen un trabajo de riesgos como policías, no obstante gente sin ninguna relación con el delito la venera. Una de las tantas mascaras y representaciones de la muerte en México.
A marketplace shrine to La Santa Muerte. La Santa Muerte is a female folk saint that is respected primarily in Mexico and the Southwestern United States. People see La Santa Muerte as a personification of death and associate her with healing, protection, as well as relying on her give them a safe delivery to the afterlife after death. She is popular among criminals, prostitutes, drug addicts, and all those overlooked by society. Although La Santa Muerte is a feminine figure in Mexico, she is seen as male in other counterparts in Argentina.
scream!
nuevas declaraciones del Juan Carlos al que apodaron Monstruo de Ecatepec.
Samuel Little, el mayor asesino serial de la ultima década.
Samul Little a confesado haber matado a casi 93 mujeres, de las cuales van confirmados 60 casos en 14 estados de la EU. Samuel es un ex boxeador originario de Georgia, fue arrestado en California por asunto de drogas, ahí la policía comprobó que su ADN coincidía con el brutal asesinato de 3 mujeres.
la mayoría de sus victimas eran mujeres pobres con adicción a drogas, su MO era ganarse su confianza, después las golpeaba y estrangulaba, esta ultima también era su firma pues obtenía gratificación al momento de la estrangulación.
Samuel ha realizado algunos dibujos de sus victima, estos se han publicado con la finalidad de que alguien las pueda reconocer.
mas información:
https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/…/la-escalofriante-confesion…
https://elpais.com/…/06/08/actualidad/1559977719_888149.html
https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-47235030
Comentario rápido
ya vi “Extremely wicked shockingly evil and vile”, y solo diré 4 cosas
1 - me gusto, cumplió mis expectativas y no glorificaron a Ted Bundy como me temía
2 - la ambientación de los años 70´s así como caracterización esta muy rifado
3 - la actuación de Zac Efron me pareció buena, entiendo que Ted y un asesino en general es difícil de interpretar, siento que le falto mas cinismo en las escenas de la corte para poder llegar a decir “que hijo de puta” pero cumple muy bien con el carisma y se nota que Zac estudio muy bien los movimientos de Ted Bundy
4- la ultima secuencia es increíble, hasta yo sentí un hielo en la espalda.
Como saben esta película aun no se estrena en Latinoamerica por lo que me gustaría dar una critica mas amplia una ves se haya estrenado legalmente en estos lados, hasta entonces.
Hi!
I’m in the TCC for a short time, but i never saw all the paintings from John Wayne Gacy together in a post, so i decide do it, if i forget one of the paintings you please add it to the post (sorry for my broken english)
BIRDS
BUBBLES THE CLOWN
CHRIST
CLOWNS
FLIPPO THE CLOWN
HANDPRINT AND CLOWNS
HI HO
HIHO AROUND THE CAMPFIRE
HI HO THE CLOWN
HI HO IN THE FALL
HI HO IN THE MINE
HI HO IN THE SPRING
HI HO IN THE WINTER
HI HO IN THE WOODS
LOU JACOBS
MICKEY
PATCHES
POGO AND CLOWN SKULL
POGO IN THE MAKING
POGO THE CLOWN
RAINBOW THE CLOWN
RED CHRIST
RED CLOUD
SELF-PORTREIT
SEX SKULL
SITTING BULL
SKULL
SKULLS
GOLD FINCHES
HOLLYWOOD MONSTERS
SELF PORTREIT
DEATH WISH
ELVIS PRESLEY
DOBLE HEAD WITCH
SEVEN FRIENDS
INDIAN SKULL
BLOODY SKULL
Other killers draw by Wayne:
TED BUNDY
CHARLES MANSON
AL CAPONE
ZODIAC KILLER
DAHMER’S SKULL
ED GEIN
Courtroom Sketches of Infamous Killers
Ted Bundy
Ted Bundy was a serial killer active in the 1970′s who ruthlessly murdered at least 36 young women and girls. He had multiple trials, the last of which in Florida ultimately consigned him to the electric chair in 1989. Ted was found guilty for the Florida murders of Margaret Bowman (21), Lisa Levy (20) and Kimberly Diane Leach (12).
Despite losing both his Florida trials, Bundy had a team of five court appointed lawyers. It is reported by these lawyers that Bundy’s self important ego caused him to try to handle much of the case himself. Attorney Polly Nelson (a member of Ted’s defence team) stated: “he sabotaged the entire defence effort out of spite, distrust and grandiose delusion”.
Night Stalker Richard Ramirez
Richard Ramirez was a serial killer active in California during the 1980′s responsible for the murders of 14 people. In his first ever court appearance in July 1988 he exclaimed “Hail Satan!” and displayed a pentagram he had drawn on his hand.
Ramirez was found guilty of all charges in September the following year and sentenced to death in November 1989. After being sentenced to die Richard told reporters: “Big deal. Death always went with the territory. See you in Disneyland.”
Oklahoma City Bomber Timothy McVeigh
Timothy James McVeigh was a terrorist responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995 which killed 168 people. McVeigh was tried in Denver, Colorado in 1996 with the trial being presided over by Judge Richard Paul Matsch.
McVeigh wanted his lawyers to use a necessity defence against the federal government but this was not the route taken. McVeigh was found guilty of all charges in June 1997. He was subsequently sentenced to death and executed via lethal injection on June 11th, 2001.
Moors Murderer Ian Brady
Alongside his accomplice and girlfriend Myra Hindley, Ian Brady murdered 5 children between 1963 and 1965. Brady and Hindley’s trial was held in 1966 and they were convicted not long after the death penalty had been banned in the United Kingdom.
During his incarceration, Brady made multiple appeals on several issues. One of which was his being force fed during his time on hunger strike. Brady expressed regret over his and Hindley’s imprisonment - but not the crimes themselves.
John Wayne Gacy
John Wayne Gacy was a serial killer who between 1972 and 1978 murdered 33 young men and boys in Chicago, Illinois. Gacy’s trial began in February 1980 with the case being presided over by Judge Louis Garippo.
The jury on Gacy’s trial deliberated for less than two hours before finding him guilty of all charges. They took slightly longer for their decision in the sentencing phase of the trial where Gacy was sentenced to die for his crimes. Gacy was executed via lethal injection on May 10th, 1994.
Charles Manson
Charles Manson was a cult leader who in 1971 was convicted for the nine murders carried out by the Manson family between July and August 1969. Despite not actually being present for the murders themselves, Manson was convicted of murder and sentenced to die.
Manson’s death sentence was commuted to life with the possibility of parole after the death penalty was suspended in California in 1972. Charles Manson died aged 83 of natural causes on November 19th, 2017.
no creo que el fuera el primero al que denominaron asesino serial, pero lo segundo es cierto.
Ted Bundy, 2002, directed by Matthew Bright.
Dr. Miahel Stone en Ciudad Juarez y su opinión
El doctor Stone es un psiquiatra forence creador de una escala de 22 niveles que miden el la maldad.
"El problema es que cuanto más se alimenta la fantasía, mayor es la probabilidad de que el acto se haga realidad", alerta.
Yo en la vida
Y’all should watch mindhunter the guy who plays Ed Kemper is amazing
Un dibujito de Cesare Lombroso padre de la criminología y Han Gross padre de la criminalística en el estilo de @supersciencefriends ya que la serie trata se super héroes científicos, me imagino que Lombroso tendría la habilidad de reconocer la maldad en una persona y ponerse en la mente de un criminal y Gross podría reconstruir en su mente lo que pasó en una escena del crimen, en fin ñoñadas mía.
Reflexiones sobre la nueva película de Ted Bundy
Gente un comentario visto por Internet, me hizo reflexionar sobre la próxima película a estrenarse sobre Ted Bundy. Si hay algo que nunca le ha gustado a los criminólogos, es la idolatría de las personas a los criminales, aunque claro ellos también entienden porque sucede este fenómeno, pero es algo que simplemente no está bien. En un principio el anuncio de la película me emocionó, porque esperaba una película biográfica con buenos actores, pero viendo nuevamente el trailer siento que tiene un tono más sensacionalista, irreal, exagerado y que puede caer en esta "idolatría" en especial por el actor que interpreta a Ted Bundy. Personalmente ahora me da miedo que la gente tenga una imagen errada de lo que fue el caso, el dolor que causó y lo dañino que fue y que se vaya con una imagen de Hannibal Lecter que es completamente alejada de lo real. Gente los asesinos seriales nos causa fascinación porque son individuos que se salen del esquema social, son monstruos reales, pero no se les olvide que son gente enferma. Es posible que me equivoque y la película sea otra cosa pero por lo que intuyó no va por ese lado, habrá que esperar. Si quieren una imagen más real del caso, recomiendo mucho la serie documental que sacó Netflix, no sale Zac Efron sin camisa y es cruda pero es real.
Gente, acabo de terminar de ver esta serie documental y la recomiendo totalmente, dejen lo que estén haciendo y vayan a verla.
Hoy es el día internacional de recordar en holocausto, un crimen contra la humanidad que nunca debe volver a suceder
EXTREMELY WICKED SHOCKINGLY EVIL AND VILE starring Zac Effron as American serial killer Ted Bundy
What is Schizophrenia?
Schizophrenia is a long term mental illness that is characterised by a variety of symptoms that are high in severity such as hallucinations (seeing or hearing things that are not there), muddled thinking patterns (trouble with connecting thoughts or pausing whilst explaining something) and delusions (inaccurate beliefs that are deemed abnormal and are persistent), it can often result in frequent changes of moods - all of this has often led to a stigmatisation of the illness and a belief that those who suffer from it can potentially be dangerous or violent, but this is a mere stereotype and when violent behaviour is displayed by those with the illness, this is often caused by other external factors such as intoxication and will often be inflicted on the individual themselves.
There are two categories often used to describe the symptoms of schizophrenia: positive and negative. Now, in everyday life these terms are often used interchangeably with ‘good’ and ‘bad’ - but in psychology they are used to describe when something, like a behaviour is added (positive) and when something is taken away or reduced. So positive symptoms appear due to the schizophrenia and negative symptoms are behaviours/thoughts that are reduced due to the schizophrenia
Positive symptoms: having visual or auditory hallucinations, believing the government (or other) are after you, a distrust in others, irrational beliefs (thought disorders), long pauses
Negative symptoms: a lack of motivation, a lack of interest in activities and everyday life, a lessened experience of emotion, problems with memory, reduced movement
What causes schizophrenia?
As with all illnesses and disorders, it is impossible to come up with a definitive cause for schizophrenia and is likely a combination of multiple interacting factors. A few examples are:
Genes: There is a significant trend that shows how schizophrenia tends to run in families, the percentage of individuals who develop the illness increases from 1% in the general population too 10% if they have an intermediate relative with it. This in increases to roughly 40-65% in MZ (identical) twins whom share 100% of their DNA.
Biological: it may be that those with schizophrenia have an imbalance of brain chemicals (neurotransmitters) such as dopamine. Additionally, there may be a difference in brain structure, these ideas are still being researched.
Environment: Of course, the concordance rate for schizophrenia or any illness with never be 100% because there is no one cause, this leads scientists to believe that genetic or biological factors may interact with the environment to cause the illness. Environmental factors are anything that happens to us or that we experience externally, this could be things such as trauma, malnutrition as a child or birth complications as well as drug induced psychosis.
Treatments:
Community Health Teams: made up of professionals such as social workers, mental health nurses, psychiatrists, psychologists etc. that are tailored to the individual and will support them in living their everyday life independently.
Antipsychotics: they block the transmission of the neurotransmitter dopamine, reducing the levels of it within the brain as too high levels have been associated with the symptoms experienced by schizophrenics.
Therapy/psychological treatment: therapies such as cognitive behavioural therapy and art therapy are commonly used to help with the psychological, cognitive and emotional aspects of the illness.
The debate:
Psychologists are still debating today whether schizophrenia is one illness itself of a combination of symptoms caused by a range of illnesses, and whether it should be a diagnosis or whether the symptoms should be focused on individually. Regardless of this debate, individuals are still diagnosed with it and so it is important to raise awareness for those who have to live with the diagnosis.
I would absolutely love to go more in depth on the variations of schizophrenia and the research behind it in the future - expect more! But, for now this was just a broad summary of the illness and its symptoms, I hope the information is useful. If you believe you or someone you know may experience the symptoms described, I encourage you to seek professional support and to know that you are not alone, schizophrenia impacts over 21 million people globally.
