A PARTIALLY MUMMIFIED CORPSE WITH PINK TEETH AND PINK NAILS

A female corpse in a state of advanced decomposition and putrefaction with pink teeth and an equivalent discolouration of several fingernail s was found by a group of hunters in a forest. A combination of trimip ramin intoxication, hypothermia and pneumonia could be established as the cause of death. Autolysis or blood congestion can only favour the occurrence of a pink discoloration. Pink phenomena depend on special a natomical features such as the existence of porus structures protected by a dense material, which explains the occurrence of a pink discolor ation in teeth and fingernails. The nonspecificity of congestion, its genesis and reinforcement by exogeneous factors does not allow pink ph enomena to be used as specific forensic evidence.