Pollen analysis reveals murder season

R. Szibor, C. Schubert, R. Schöning, D. Krause and U. Wendt
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R. Szibor: Institut für Rechtsmedizin, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
C. Schubert: Institut für Rechtsmedizin, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
R. Schöning: Institut für Rechtsmedizin, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
D. Krause: Institut für Rechtsmedizin, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
U. Wendt: Institut für Werkstofftechnik und Werkzeugprüfung, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg

Nature, 1998, vol. 395, issue 6701, 449-450

Abstract: Abstract Pollen analysis is well established in palaeogeographical research1,2, but it remains an underused resource in forensic science3,4. So far it has been used to investigate only one reported case of murder5, but has not to our knowledge been used to determine the time of death. We examined a common grave containing 32 murder victims, and used pollen analysis to establish that the murders must have occurred in the summer of an unknown year. A knowledge of the season of the murder could help to determine who was responsible for the murders.

Date: 1998
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