Little is known about human decomposition in Canada. This study involves the retrospective analysis of 358 police death investigations from across Canada. There are four components to the study. The first component determined differences in the progression of baseline decomposition for outdoor surface, buried, indoor and water scenes. The second component determined which variables affected the progression of decomposition by scene type. The PMI (in days) was found to have more predictive value compared to the ADD score. Seven variables were found to contribute to 83% of the variability in...