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JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY
Volume 50, Issue 5, Pages 935-954Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1603/ME12097
Keywords
forensic entomology; forensic science; Marcel Leclercq; human remain; case study
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- Fonds Pour la Formation a la Recherche dans l'Industrie et l'Agriculture (FRIA), Belgium
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Dr. Marcel Leclercq was a pioneer in the field of forensic entomology. He has provided his knowledge of insect biology to many forensic cases, and most of them have found the way to publication. Most of the articles he has written were focused on individual cases, and despite the abundance of entomoforensic investigations he conducted, no synthesis has been published. This article summarizes 36 yr of forensic entomological investigations in temperate Europe, mainly in Belgium. Dr. Leclercq's work includes 132 entomological cases involving 141 human corpses found in various death scenes. Under certain conditions, insect specimens found at death scene can provide information on when (postmortem interval estimation), where and how a person died. More or less 100 insect species associated with a dead body have been identified by Dr. Leclercq.
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