Adair Thomas W
Westminster Police Department, Westminster, CO 80031, USA.
J Forensic Sci. 2008 Sep;53(5):1212-3. doi: 10.1111/j.1556-4029.2008.00812.x. Epub 2008 Jul 14.
In the summer of 2005 an adult hiker was killed in a fall in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado (U.S.A.). His body was subsequently colonized by the blowfly Calliphora vicina (Diptera: Calliphoridae). The body was discovered 9 days later at an elevation of 3475 m (11,400 feet). This is the first report of C. vicina on a human corpse at this elevation in Colorado. This paper provides additional confirmation of this fly colonizing a human corpse at high elevations in Colorado.