{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,5,4]],"date-time":"2026-05-04T12:06:55Z","timestamp":1777896415979,"version":"3.51.4"},"reference-count":15,"publisher":"SAGE Publications","issue":"4","license":[{"start":{"date-parts":[[2020,4,22]],"date-time":"2020-04-22T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1587513600000},"content-version":"tdm","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/page\/policies\/text-and-data-mining-license"}],"content-domain":{"domain":["journals.sagepub.com"],"crossmark-restriction":true},"short-container-title":["Med Leg J"],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2020,12]]},"abstract":"<jats:p>Adipocere is medico-legally exigent post-mortem change alternative to putrefaction. Sprinkling table salt over corpse to hasten disintegration and keep carnivores and nibblers off is a feature of ritualistic burial. We describe an unusual murder concealment wherein assailant put quantum of table salt over and around dead body while burying in jungle to hasten disintegration. Unexpected adipocere involving table salt preserved the body and firearm injuries. A mystifying thanatological aspect was the basic fact of table salt osmotically drawing even intrinsic body water needed for adipocere in non-damp conditions. It exceptionally formed in a week, and in a shallow grave, its formation in such conditions being very unusual and unreported.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1177\/0025817219898178","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,4,22]],"date-time":"2020-04-22T18:16:40Z","timestamp":1587579400000},"page":"205-208","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/sage-journals-update-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Murderer who spread table salt over his victim's corpse unintentionally preserved it from putrefaction"],"prefix":"10.1177","volume":"88","author":[{"given":"C","family":"Behera","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, AIIMS, New Delhi, India"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"M","family":"Chauhan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Government Medical College and Hospital, Chandigarh, India"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"S","family":"Devassy","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Ex. Senior Resident, Department of Forensic Medicine &; Toxicology, AIIMS, New Delhi, India"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"179","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,4,22]]},"reference":[{"key":"bibr1-0025817219898178","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Pekka Saukko, Bernard Knight.\n                      Knight\u2019s forensic pathology\n                      . 4th ed. Boca Raton: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis, 2016, pp. 71\u201373.","DOI":"10.1201\/b13266"},{"key":"bibr2-0025817219898178","volume-title":"Modern trends in forensic medicine","author":"Mant AK.","year":"1967"},{"key":"bibr3-0025817219898178","volume-title":"Practisches Handbuch der Gerichtlichen Medicin","author":"Casper JL.","year":"1857","edition":"1"},{"key":"bibr4-0025817219898178","volume-title":"Essentials of forensic anthropology","author":"Stewart TD.","year":"1979"},{"key":"bibr5-0025817219898178","first-page":"339","volume":"38","author":"Dutra FR.","year":"1944","journal-title":"Arch Pathol"},{"key":"bibr6-0025817219898178","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1177\/0032258X4201500405","volume":"15","author":"Smith S.","year":"1942","journal-title":"Police J"},{"key":"bibr7-0025817219898178","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/0379-0738(95)01878-6"},{"key":"bibr8-0025817219898178","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1046\/j.1469-7580.1998.19230443.x"},{"key":"bibr9-0025817219898178","first-page":"180","volume":"24","author":"Kurz H.","year":"1977","journal-title":"Der Pr\u00e4parator"},{"key":"bibr10-0025817219898178","volume-title":"History of embalming: and of preparations in anatomy, pathology, and natural history; including account of new process for embalming","author":"Gannal JN.","year":"1840"},{"key":"bibr11-0025817219898178","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1177\/0025817217734091"},{"key":"bibr12-0025817219898178","unstructured":"Dalal JS, et\u00a0al. JIAFM, 2006; 28. ISSN: 0971-3."},{"key":"bibr13-0025817219898178","volume-title":"The scientific study of mummies","author":"Aufderheide AC.","year":"2003"},{"key":"bibr14-0025817219898178","first-page":"145","volume":"3","author":"Evans WE.","year":"1963","journal-title":"Med Sci Law"},{"key":"bibr15-0025817219898178","volume-title":"Time of death, decomposition and identification: an Atlas","author":"Dix J","year":"2000"}],"container-title":["Medico-Legal Journal"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1177\/0025817219898178","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/full-xml\/10.1177\/0025817219898178","content-type":"application\/xml","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1177\/0025817219898178","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2026,5,1]],"date-time":"2026-05-01T08:26:10Z","timestamp":1777623970000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/10.1177\/0025817219898178"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2020,4,22]]},"references-count":15,"journal-issue":{"issue":"4","published-print":{"date-parts":[[2020,12]]}},"alternative-id":["10.1177\/0025817219898178"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/0025817219898178","relation":{},"ISSN":["0025-8172","2042-1834"],"issn-type":[{"value":"0025-8172","type":"print"},{"value":"2042-1834","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2020,4,22]]}}}