La entomología como ciencia forense y su importancia en la investigación criminal para determinar el tiempo de muerte

Abstract

The forensic entomology takes charge of the study of the insects applying procedures, theoretical, practical and scientific; by means of the study of the insects it is possible to determine the space passed between the death and the finding of the corpse, it is possible to establish if the corpse has been moved or changed of place, of equal way in the insects they can find poisonous substances, illicit drugs, etc. Due to the fact that the insects feed of the body in decomposition. The present work centres on the study of the forensic entomology, what is?, how is it applied? And which is his usefulness in investigations that go forward in Colombia?, and which were the benefits that threw the application of this evidence in the development of the case do I number 10?, in conformity with the urgent acts advanced by judicial policeman from a call to the line of emergency attention 123 on the part of a citizen who gives knowledge of a body without life that one finds in Barrancabermeja Santander's municipality of the South in San Silvestre's Marsh. From the criminal News, the first one in coming to the place of the fact it is the first respondiente whose basic function is to isolate the scene, that is to say, to separate it from the rest of the environment, later judicial policeman despliega the procedure known as urgent acts, which are to realize interviews, inspection to the place of the facts and inspection to the corpse in order to gather, to sprint, to label and to identify material evidential elements and physical evidence that could be obtained of the place of the fact and that they allow to identify and to give sustenance to the General District attorney's office of the Nation through the district attorney designated to clarify the facts, to express orders of apprehension and to take the persons in charge of committing the crime to oral and public judgment. For the previous thing, the district attorney entrusted to coordinate the investigation will arrange the formulation of a methodological program with help of his investigators which will have to contain the determination of the aims in relation with the nature of the criminal hypothesis; the criteria to evaluate the information; the functional delimiting of the tasks that should go forward in tries of the planned aims; the procedures of control in the development of the labors and the resources of improvement of the results obtained (C.P.P. Art 207), beside advancing the pertinent formalities inside the investigation that goes forward