rigor mortis

Another remembers having to flatten out a corpse in which rigor mortis had set in.

In an affidavit filed with a search warrant, Detective Andrew Patterson stated that when investigators arrived on Feb. 3, the boy was cold to the touch and his body was in rigor mortis.

These claims were amplified in an article by the Jerusalem Post, an influential Israeli newspaper, which showed an image of Muhammad in rigor mortis after his death and said it proved he was a doll.

Mexico City investigators also found video from a Mexico City apartment building that showed a bearded, balding man lugging López’s body — her legs stiff with rigor mortis — through a hallway and then a garage.

The breath stops, the heart stops, the brain stops and rigor mortis soon appears.