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Sunday 18 October 2009
Halloween dummy was real dead body
Residents in a block of flats left a dead body on a neighbour's patio for three days because they thought it was a Halloween display.
Mostafa Mahmoud Zayed had apparently been dead since Monday.
Cameraman Austin Raishbrook, owner of RMG News, told the Los Angeles Times he was at the scene in Marina del Rey, Southern California, on Thursday when the authorities arrived.
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How can some one not know that person was dead, could they not smell it?!?!?!
@dixiebeka
The smell and/or insect activity are likely why the body was discovered to be real on/after day 3. It generally takes a few days for a body to begin to smell, barring ruptures to certain internal organs.
Immediately following death there is rarely any odor detectable by human noses, though there is a pheromonal shift that begins to attract insects.
During the first few days of death the decay process is relatively difficult to see for the casual bystander. This is part of why the odor primarily associated with 'wakes' (a traditional mourning practice involving the un-embalmed body being kept accessible for viewing and farewells before burial, typically at the decedent's home, commonly lasting 1-3 days) is of food brought in by friends and relatives for the immediate family.
The bulk of the early decay process is not outwardly visible. It consists primarily of chemical and bacterial as the cells of the body begin to alter with temperature changes, PH alteration, and oxygen depletion. As internal oxygen levels drop, bacterial activity increases.
The more outwardly noticable changes to the body in the first few days after death, can also lead to it appearing 'fake. Namely Livor and Rigor Mortises.
Typically within the first 3 hours of death Livor Mortis (the process of blood following gravity to low lying areas of the body) begins modifying the coloration of the skin as it progresses. Since this body was seated, the blood pooling would have been in the buttocks legs and hands, the resulting 'bruised' coloration of these areas was likely predominately hidden by a pair of jeans or other clothing. The smaller amount of pooling in the hands could have contributed to the 'fake' appearance as it would have contrasted sharply with the color drained upper body and head.
After a few hours, Rigor Mortis, a process of the muscle tissue contracting or 'locking' begins and lasts for a typical 72 hours (or three days). This stiffening of the body likely made it so anyone who may have investigated the 'dummy' thought it was solid or otherwise constructed of a stiff armature to hold it in place.
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