Carla Valentine

Carla Valentine Instagram – I’m currently more focused on the forensics specimens held in the collection I work at, because the last book I had published was about the forensics of Agatha Christie (and I’m starting work on a new one…watch this space!) This is a potted section of a man’s torso (you can see the nipple, for context) with a gunshot wound. Archive Info: “caused by an old, large calibre service revolver which hadn’t been cleaned or fired for many years and it was an accidental shooting, possibly because the ammunition was unstable. The combination of a barrel lined with corrosion & carbon deposits, together with old, corroded ammo proved to be deadly. It’s theorised the gun went off due to jarring, so it wasn’t an outright shooting. The rectangular stretch below the wound is from a dressing applied for a short while”. 📸 is mine
#gun #gunshot #gunshotwound #forensics #ballistics #forensicballistics #humanremains #autopsy #remains2beseen #anatomy #pathology #specimen #conservation #wetspecimen #anatomymuseum #pathologymuseum | Posted on 30/May/2023 19:57:57