Spontaneous Human Combustion Case Study

Spontaneous Human Combustion

Spontaneous Human Combustion(SHC) pertains to the burning of a person's body occurring without an outside source of ignition. The characteristics of SHC varies form different cases but most of the time evidences gathered are more likely show similar clues which we can relate to other SHC cases. Now, the evidences gathered are as follows; the victim is an elderly, the furniture around the victim stayed untouched, a part of the ceiling above the victim was damaged, the victim was reduced to ash with only her extremities(foot) left and no outside source of ignition was observed. All of which are surprisingly similar evidences to all cases hypothesized as SHC.
As one of the investigators, I strongly agree that this case is caused by SHC. It was due to four facts that I had observed. First, all of the evidences gathered ate identical to all cases concluded as SHC cases.
The victim possibly drank alcohol beverages which can make her combustibility increased in such a way that even a small amount of heat can set up a combustion process. Also, another scenario is the presence of perfume in her clothes of the victim can trigger enough ignitions to make the clothes on fire. This small amount of heat and fire slowly makes the human body dry then lately it will continuously consume fats as the combustible material and as a fuel within our skin setting the whole body on fire. Most of the fats are located in the mid part of our body, which is why in SHC cases most part that are left behind are the extremities (foot,