To: Conservative Texan Mom
Average onset 3-4 hours after death, reaches fullness at about 12 hours and leaves at about 36.
Warm tempatures can delay it, cool tempatures hasten it.
1,746 posted on
08/24/2006 2:39:10 PM PDT by
Valpal1
(Big Media is like Barney Fife with a gun.)
To: Valpal1
1,748 posted on
08/24/2006 2:41:06 PM PDT by
Conservative Texan Mom
(Some people say I'm stubborn, when it's usually just that I'm right.)
To: Valpal1
How active the deceased's muscles were at the time of death hastens RM. The Yates child who fought the hardest had already started into rigor when the ME got there just 4 hours later.
1,751 posted on
08/24/2006 2:42:11 PM PDT by
Rte66
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