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The presence of diatom algae in bone marrow has been used as forensic evidence of drowning for several decades; however, these studies are based on known or suspected recent drowning events. This study addresses the potential for diatoms to enter the bone marrow of skeletal remains, that is, de‐fleshed long bones post‐mortem. In laboratory and field experiments, bones were either inflicted with two...
Diatoms show potential as trace evidence indicators, particularly as evidence of drowning. Often, the diatom test to diagnose drowning is done on soft tissue or bone marrow from a recently deceased individual. This method presented here combines elements from previous forensic literature and methods of diatom isolation in phycology to extract diatoms from bone marrow of skeletal remains for forensic...
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