Murder We Wrote!

What methods are comonly used to find the time of death?
1. The rate method. Measuring the change produced by a process which takes place at a known rate which was either initiated or stopped by the event under investigation, i.e. death. Examples include the amount and distribution of rigor mortis, the change in body temperature, and the degree of putrefaction of the body.2. The concurrence method. Comparing the occurrence of events which took place at known times with the time of occurrence of the event under investigation, i.e. death. For example, a wrist watch stopped by a blow during an assault, the extent of digestion of the last known meal.
What factors are considered in Algor Mortis?
Environment and Temperature of the body.
How does the environment affect the time of death?
Temperature of the environment affects the rate at which the body will decay, so it makes the results vary. Newton's law of cooling states that the rate of cooling of a body is determined by the difference between the temperature of the body and that of its environment. This needs to be considered because only like this will you approach the exact time of death.
What can you tell about the different methods of temperature reading of the body? Do they make a difference in the results?
Finding the exact time of death of a body is a very hard thing to do. Although there are different methods for doing this, I believe the more exact one is Algor Mortis, because it considers the temperature of the environment which affects the results you get. If you don't consider this, you are doing it according to an ideal temperature, which in reality will never be the same! :P