Cape Town has consistently been one of the metropolitan regions in South Africa with the highest murder rates. It has more than double the national average, and is currently ranked second overall and ...

Paul Flores’ conviction for murdering Kristin Smart closed one chapter in the 27-year-old mystery, but it didn’t answer her family’s most enduring question. Where is Kristin’s body? Solving that final ...

Body farms are facilities where corpses are placed in a variety of environments and scenarios to study how they decompose. This research can help forensic scientists and police figure out what has ...

ARROYO GRANDE, Calif. — It’s been 27 years since Kristin Smart disappeared following an off-campus party after being “hunted” for months by another Cal Poly San Luis Obispo student. Paul Flores, who ...

People have long wondered whether modern-day human corpses take longer to decompose due to the addition of preservatives in the food chain. The claim dates back to at least 1991, when an article was ...

They include interference with the personal right to bury the body of a family member, negligent infliction of emotional distress and “negligent treatment, preservation, mishandling and mutilation of ...

A team of experts was unable to determine why a Missouri nun who died in 2019 had not decomposed, the bishop of the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph announced on Thursday. "Within the limits of what ...

CHATTOOGA COUNTY, Ga. — A body was found in a home in Chattooga County on Monday in "the latter stages of decomposition," the sheriff said, with the person deceased possibly more than a year. Sheriff ...