An Alabama hospital improperly stored a woman’s body, leaving it to decompose, the woman’s daughter says in a lawsuit. Getty Images/iStockphoto A woman is suing an Alabama hospital where her ...

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 ...

A widow and her family are suing Celebrity Cruises for allegedly mishandling her husband's body after he died while they were on a ship last year, saying it was left to decompose and they suffered ...

What happens to a dead body in an extremely cold environment? Does it decompose? How do these conditions affect how forensic scientists understand when the person died? Estimating time of death, also ...