title: Investigation of death through body writing: a case study.
abstract: Various surfaces or substrates are often encountered in the examination of questioned writing; however, no writing is more interesting than that found on the human body nor more challenging when the writing in question is linked to a death investigation. The body of an 18-year-old male was brought to the State Crime Laboratory, Little Rock, Arkansas, with a gunshot wound to the head and several messages written on his arms and chest. This paper will discuss the examination of evidence used to determine the manner of death through a cooperative effort between the Medical Examiner's Section and the Questioned Document Section of the Crime Laboratory.
authors.affiliation: Questioned Document Section, Arkansas State Crime Laboratory, Little Rock.
authors.forename: L L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Taylor
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Hnilica
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001132:Arm; D006259:Craniocerebral Trauma / Q000473:pathology; D005554:Forensic Medicine / Q000379:methods*; D006236:Handwriting; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012867:Skin; D013405:Suicide; D013909:Thorax; D014948:Wounds, Gunshot / Q000473:pathology*