Everything about the mummification process has been shared by a forensic pathologist named Judy Melinek.

It is relevant to mention that as the police entered the parets residence in Santa Fe, they were greeted with the body of Hackman in the mud room while his wife, as in the bathroom, was on her side, near a countertop, next to scattered pills.

Authorities also noted that at the time of the fall, she potentially knocked over a space heater that was near her head, and signs of degradation were observed, bloating near her face as well as mummification in both hands, as well as her feet when she was found.

Their dog was also died hardly a few meters from Hackman’s wife Betsy, and it was only later that Hackman’s body was discovered and a hiking wheel was found near his body that led to suspension that he “suddenly fallen”.

Explanation of all this as well as mummification spoke the forensic pathologist with People magazine and said, “When you have bodies that have broken down or have not been seen, and especially with people who have not been seen in a while, the first question is to try to find out what happened to find out the time of death.”

“And a way to find out the time of death is to look at markers on stage, indicators of when was the last time they were alive. And they tend to be more reliable than the anatomical markers when the body is poorly degraded. “

For while “in the early stages of death, we can rely on things like Rigor Mortis – the stiffening of the body – or algor mortis, which is the body temperature. And we can use them to try to narrow the postmort interval, but when the body breaks down, it’s much harder to do. “

In such cases, “scene finds and circumstances” are used.

Questions like: “When was the last time they were seen alive? When were they found dead? When did the mail start pouring up? “Also become part of the equation because” it indicates that no one was going to the mailbox to pick it up. So you can tell from the Data Temple of the Post when was the last time they logged in to their computer or opened their phone or called someone. “

According to Melinek’s finding, it was over 10 days since everything happened, and at that time “they start to fall apart and there will be safe organs that break and no longer show the anatomical markers that could help us find out if they were working or working properly.”

Even the Chief Medical Examiner stepped forward to tell the outlets, “You will not be able to tell from the postmort remains, because once you come to mummification, all bets are off. It depends on where in the house they were, what they were wearing, all kinds of things can affect the changes after Mortem. Once you get to that mummification step, there is nothing to … be able to distinguish between the two time of death. “