A mother in Virginia sued a funeral home after she said her son's body was infested with maggots during his viewing.

Tabitha Worrell is suing a funeral home in Virginia after the family went to her son's viewing and witnessed the deceased's ...

The lawsuit claims that maggots covered Williams' face and body. "The maggots had burrowed into holes in his cheek and mouth ...

The investigators took a DNA sample from the man and then looked at the gut contents of three blowfly maggots from the dead body. They found traces of human DNA in the bugs' stomachs.

When police found a burned body in Mexico, investigators were able to identify the victim using genetic material from an unusual place — inside maggots infesting the corpse.

A mother has filed suit against the funeral home in charge of services for her son, who died at 24 years old in a car ...

Light-sensitive cells lining the bodies of fruit fly maggots allow the larvae to squirm away from bright light, a new study finds.

Maggots feeding on the body of a morbidly obese teenager were at least 48 hours old when examined, an expert has told the trial of a man accused of neglecting his daughter.

Ancient Remedies Using maggots and leeches on the human body goes way back — the ancient Greek physician Galen referenced them more than two thousand years ago. Striped barber poles, in fact, are a ...

Interestingly, though perhaps unsurprisingly, this is the first time that human DNA from a maggot gut has ever been used to successfully identify a victim in a legal case.

Casey Anthony's father, a former police officer, testified that the odor was that of a decomposing human body. "That particular smell whenever you smell it, it's something that you never forget.

This is consequently the first reported case of taking human DNA from the gastrointestinal tract of maggots to identify a victim in a criminal case.