2023

  • Adetimehin AD, Mole CG, Finaughty DA, Heyns M. 2023. Parasitic and predatory behavior of Alysia manducator (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) on blow fly larvae feeding on an adult pig carcass in the Western Cape Province of South Africa – preliminary observations and forensic implications. Int J Leg Med. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-023-03001-5 
  • Bachan V, Molefe I, Davies B. 2023. Investigating blood alcohol concentrations in injury-related deaths before and during the COVID-19 National lockdown in Western Cape, South Africa: A cross-sectional retrospective review. S Afr Med J. 113(6): 50-56. https://doi.org/10.7196/SAMJ.2023.v113i6.372 
  • Baliso A, Heathfield LJ, Gibbon VE. 2023. Forensic human identifcation: retrospective investigation of anthropological assessments in the Western Cape, South Africa. Int J Leg Med. 137:793-807. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-022-02870-6 
  • Davies B, Hlela MBKM, Rother H. 2023. Child and adolescent mortality associated with pesticide toxicity in Cape Town, South Africa, 2010–2019: a retrospective case review. BMC Public Health. 23:792. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-15652-5 
  • Heathfield LJ, Martin, LJ, van der Heyde Y, Molefe I, Ramesar R. 2023. Clinical exome sequencing elucidates underlying cause of death in sudden unexpected death of infants: two case reports. Int J Leg Med. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-023-03065-3 
  • Mole CG, Stynder DD, Gibbon VE. 2023. Traumatic cubitus valgus consequent of distal humeral fracture: Two case studies from the Holocene Later Stone Age in southern Africa. Int J Paleopathol. 43:7 - 15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2023.07.001 
  • Mole CG, Stynder DD, Sealy JC, Gibbon VE. 2023. Precolonial violence: Analysis of traumatic injuries from a communal burial site in South Africa. In: Program of the 92nd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists. Am J Biol Anthr. 180:120. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24731 
  • Muleya J, Vuko L, Mader J, Davies B. 2023. Thoracic cavity fluid as an alternative specimen for carboxyhaemoglobin measurement in post-mortem toxicology. Forensic Sci Int. 349: 111731. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2023.111731 
  • Navsaria PH, Marineau LA, Maqungo S, Prinsloo M, Molefe IJ, Hodkinson P. 2023. The firearm pandemic: Time to act and flatten the curve. S Afr Med J. 113:113-114. https://doi.org/10.7196/SAMJ.2023.v113i3.316 
  • Nicholson TJ, Hoddinott G, Seddon JA, Claasens MM, Van der Zalm MM, Lopez E, Bock P, Caldwell J, Da Costa D, de Vall C, Dunbar R, Du Preez K, Hesseling AC, Joseph K, Kriel E, Lovedday M, Marx FM, Meehan S, Purchase S, Naidoo K, Naidoo L, Solomon-Da Costa F, Sloot R, Osman M. 2023. A systematic review of risk factors for mortality among tuberculosis patients in South Africa. Systematic Reviews 0.515972222222222. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-023-02175-8 
  • Reid KM, Martin LJ, Heathfield LJ. 2023. Understanding the burden of unidentified bodies: A systematic review. Int J Leg Med. 137: 1193–1202. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-023-02968-5 
  • Rowbotham S, Mole CG, Tieppo D, Blaszkowsska M, Cordner S, Blau S. 2023. Average thickness of the bones of the human neurocranium: Development of reference measurements to assist with blunt force trauma interpretations. Int J Leg Med. 137:195-213. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-022-02824-y 

2022

  • Adetimehin AD, Mole CG, Finaughty DA, Heyns M. 2022. Caught in the act: impact of Crematogaster cf. liengmei (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) necrophagous behavior on neonate pigs (Sus scrofa domesticus L.) in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. Int J Leg Med. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-022-02835-9 
  • Dinkele ES, Kirk G, Martin LJ. 2022. Medico-legal death investigation systems - South Africa. Sri Lanka J Forensic Med Sci Law. 13 (special issue): 50-52. https://doi.org/10.4038/sljfmsl.v13i0.7922 
  • Emrith TS, Mole CG, Heyns M. 2022. The production of butterfly fractures during bending impact and its use in interpreting impact direction. Aus J Forensic Sci. 54:26-41. https://doi.org/10.1080/00450618.2020.1781252 
  • Finaughty C, Heathfield LJ, Kemp V, Marquez-Grant N. 2022. Forensic DNA extraction methods for human hard tissue: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis of technologies and sample type. Forensic Sci Int: Genetics. 63:102818. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsigen.2022.102818 
  • Gibbon VE, Finaughty C, Moller I, Finaughty DA. 2022. Pressing need for national governmental recognition of forensic anthropology in South Africa as illustrated in a medico-legal case. Sci Justice. 62:411-417. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scijus.2022.05.003 
  • Heathfield LJ, Hitewa AN, Gibbon A, Mole CG. 2022. The effect of nucleospin forensic filters on DNA recovery from trace DNA swabs. Sci Justice. 62: 284 - 287. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scijus.2022.03.001 
  • Mole CG, Gibbon VE, Stynder DD. 2022. Patterns of trauma and violence in a Later Stone Age sample from southern Africa. In: Program of the 91st Annual meeting of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists (AABA), March 23 – April 1, 2022. Am J Biol Anthr. 77(S73): 127. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24514 
  • Rowbotham S, Mole CG, Tieppo D, Blaszkowsska M, Cordner S, Blau S. 2022. Reference measurements for average human neurocranial bone density to inform head trauma interpretations. Aus J Forensic Sci. https://doi.org/10.1080/00450618.2022.2141320 
  • Speelman AC, Engel-Hills PC, Martin LJ, van Rijn RR, Offiah AC. 2022. Postmortem computed tomography plus forensic autopsy for determining the cause of death in child fatalities. Pead Radiol. 52: 2620 - 2629. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00247-022-05406-7 
  • Vandayar Y, Heathfield LJ. 2022. A review of the causes and risk factors for sudden unexpected death in the young. Forensic Sci Med Pathol. 18: 186-196. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12024-021-00444-3 
  • Viljoen R, Reid KM, Mole CG, Rangwaga M, Heathfield LJ. 2022. Towards molecular autopsies: Development of a FFPE tissue DNA extraction workflow. Sci Justice. 62(2): 137-144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scijus.2021.12.005 

2021

  • Artz L, Swanepoel M, Nagdee M, Combrinck H, Kaliski S, Stein DJ, Butterworth J. 2021. ICD-11 Paraphilic Disorders: A South African Analysis of Its Utility in the Medico-Legal Context. Journal of Sexual Medicine. 18(3): 526-538. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsxm.2020.12.005 
  • Baliso A, Heathfield LJ, Gibbon VE. 2021. Identification of the deceased: A retrospective review of Forensic Anthropology Cape Town casework (abstract): In: Program of the 90th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. American J Phys Anthr. 174:7-7. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24262 
  • Bennett T, Gibbon VE, Taylor LD, Heathfield LJ. 2021. Sex estimation for forensic human identification: a case report of discordance between anthropological assessment and DNA analysis (abstract). In: Program of the 90th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. American J Phys Anthr. 174: 9-9. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24262 
  • Bennett, T., Martin, L.J., and Heathfield, L.J. 2021. Local recommendations for death scene investigation of SUDI cases based on prospective observations. South African Medical Journal. 111(5) 448-452. https://doi.org/10.7196/SAMJ.2021.v111i5.15305 
  • Heathfield, L.J., Haikney, T., Mole, C.G., Finaughty, C., Zachou, A.M. and Gibbon, V.E. 2021. Forensic human identification: Investigation into tooth morphotype and DNA extraction methods from teeth. Science and Justice. 61, 4, 339-344. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scijus.2021.05.005 
  • Heathfield, L.J., Watkins, H., Martin, L.J., and Ramesar, R.S. 2021. Massively parallel sequencing of 43 arrhythmia genes in a selected SUDI cohort from Cape Town. Journal of Pediatric Genetics. In press. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0041-1726471 
  • Meer T, Müller A. 2021. Making ‘meanwhile. . .’: Representing queer African youth through spontaneous collaborative graphic autoethnography. Qualitative Research. 23(2): 323–342. https://doi.org/10.1177/14687941211028801 
  • Müller A, Daskilewicz K, Kabwe ML, Mmolai-Chalmers A, Morroni C, et al.. 2021. Experience of and factors associated with violence against sexual and gender minorities in nine African countries: a cross-sectional study. BMC Public Health. 21(): 357. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-10314-w 
  • Taylor L, Ameen OS, Zaharie SD. 2021. Complete Clinicopathological Case Report of a Young Patient Dying of COVID-19-Related Stroke. Am J Forensic Med Pathol. 42(2): 160-163. https://doi.org/10.1097/PAF.0000000000000668 
  • Winterbach, M., Hattingh, C. and Heathfield, L.J. 2021. Retrospective study of sudden unexpected death of infants in the Garden Route and Central Karoo districts of South Africa: causes of death and epidemiological factors. South African Journal of Child Health. A15(2), 74-82.

2020

  • Wykes M, Artz L. 2020. What's law got to do with it?' Comparing the failure to deter or convict rapists in the United Kingdom and South Africa. International Review of Victimology. 26(2):212-233. https://doi.org/10.1177/0269758019886510 
  • Artz L, Klazinga L, Müller A. 2020. Sexual and gender-based violence and HIV in South Africa: An HIV facility-based study. S Afr M J. 110(5): 377-381. https://doi.org/10.7196/SAMJ.2020.v110i5.13942 
  • Bennett T, Martin LJ, Heathfield LJ. 2020. A retrospective study of death scene investigation practices for sudden unexpected death of infants (SUDI) in Cape Town, South Africa. Forensic Sci Med Pathol. 16: 49–56. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12024-019-00206-2 
  • du Plessis M, Moller I, Liebenberg L. 2020. Double rarity: an unusual case of bromoform poisoning detected by post-mortem radiography. Int J Legal Med. 134(2):703-708. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-019-02032-1 
  • du Plessis M, Date-Chong M, Liebenberg L. 2020. Lodox®: the invaluable radiographic solution in the forensic setting. Int J Legal Med. 134: 655-662. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-019-02116-y 
  • Emrith TS, Mole CG, Heyns M. 2020. The production of butterfly fractures during bending impact and its use in interpreting impact direction. Aust J Forensic Sci. https://doi.org/10.1080/00450618.2020.1781252 
  • Finaughty, C., Reid, K.M., Alli, I.H. and Heathfield, L.J. 2020. A first for forensic genetics in Africa: successful identification of skeletal remains from the marine environment using massively parallel sequencing. Forensic Science International: Genetics. 49, 102370. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsigen.2020.102370  
  • Heathfield LJ, Bhengu W, Louw S, Martin LJ, Ramesar RS. 2020. Assessment of candidate variants causative of inborn metabolic diseases in SUDI cases in South Africa, and a case report.  Int J Legal Med. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-020-02337-6 
  • Heathfield, L.J., Martin, L.J., and Ramesar, R.S. 2020. A 5-year retrospective analysis of infant death at Salt River Mortuary, Cape Town. South African Journal of Child Health. 14(3). https://doi.org/10.7196/SAJCH.2020.v14i3.1720 
  • Liebling H, Barrett H, Artz L. 2020. Sexual and gender-based violence and torture experiences of Sudanese refugees in Northern Uganda: Health and justice response. International journal of Migration, Health and Social Care 16(4): 389-414. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJMHSC-10-2019-0081 
  • Liebling H, Barrett H, Artz L. 2020. South Sudanese refugee survivors of sexual and gender-based violence and torture: Health and justice services responses in Northern Uganda. Int J Environ Res Pub Health. 17(5):1685-1706. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17051685 
  • Reid, K.M., and Heathfield, L.J. 2020. Allele frequency data for 23 Y-chromosome short tandem repeats (STRs) for the South African population. Forensic Sci Int: Genetics. 46: 102270. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsigen.2020.102270 
  • Reid KM, Martin LJ, Heathfield LJ. 2020. Bodies without names: a retrospective review of unidentified decedents at Salt River Medico-Legal Mortuary, South Africa (2010 – 2017). S Afr Med J. 110(3): 223-228. https://doi.org/10.7196/SAMJ.2020.v110i3.14192 
  • Reid, K.M. and Heathfield, L.J. 2020. Evaluation of direct PCR for routine DNA profiling of non-decomposed deceased individuals. Science and Justice. In press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scijus.2020.08.004 
  • Tawha T, Dinkele E, Mole CG, Gibbon VE. 2020. Assessing zygomatic shape and size for estimating sex and ancestry in a South African sample. Sci Justice. 60(3): 284 – 292. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scijus.2020.01.003 

2019

  • Mole CG. 2019. Trends in manner and cause of death over a 10 year period (2007 – 2016) at a regional forensic pathology facility, Cape Town, South Africa. Aust J Forensic Sci. 51: S197 – 200. https://doi.org/0.1080/00450618.2019.1569134 
  • Heathfield LJ, Martin LJ, and Ramesar, RS. 2019. Massively parallel sequencing in sudden unexpected death in infants: a case report in South Africa. Forensic Sci Int: Genet Suppl Ser. 7(1): 459-461. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsigss.2019.10.051 
  • Finaughty C, Gibbon VE, Speed B, Heathfield LJ. 2019. Lost at sea: A pilot study investigating DNA recovery from teeth in a South African natural marine environment. Forensic Sci Int: Genet Suppl Ser. 7(1): 580-581. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsigss.2019.10.097 
  • Bennett T, Martin LJ, Heathfield LJ. 2019. A retrospective study of death scene investigation practices for sudden unexpected death of infants (SUDI) in Cape Town, South Africa. Forensic Sci, Med Pathol. 16: 49–56. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12024-019-00206-2 
  • Heathfield LJ, Martin LJ, and Ramesar RS. 2019. Considerations of molecular autopsies in forensic cases of sudden unexpected death in infants and children in South Africa. S Afr J Child Health. 13(1): 2-3. https://doi.org/10.7196/SAJCH.2019.v13i1.1573 
  • Bennett T, Martin LJ, Heathfield LJ. 2019. Global trends in the extent of death scene investigation performed for sudden and unexpected death of infant (SUDI) cases: A systematic review. Forensic Sci Int. 301: 435-444. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2019.06.013 
  • Reid KM, Martin LJ, Heathfield LJ. 2019. Evaluation of DNA profiles obtained from deceased individuals at Salt River Mortuary (South Africa).  Aust J Forensic Sci. 51:sup1, S48-S51. https://doi.org/10.1080/00450618.2019.1569149 
  • Mathews S, Abrahams N, Martin LJ, Lombard C, Jewkes R. 2019. Homicide pattern among adolescents: a national epidemiological study of child homicide in South Africa. PLoS ONE. 14(8):e0221415. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0221415 
  • Auckloo MBKM, Davies BB. 2019. Post-mortem toxicology in violent fatalities in Cape Town, South Africa: A preliminary investigation. J Forensic Leg Med. 63: 18-25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jflm.2019.02.005 
  • du Plessis M, Moller I, Liebenberg L. 2019. Double rarity: an unusual case of bromoform poisoning detected by post-mortem radiography. Int J Legal Med. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-019-02032-1 
  • du Plessis M, Date-Chong M, Liebenberg L. 2019. Lodox®: the invaluable radiographic solution in the forensic setting. Int J Legal Med. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-019-02116-y 
  • Mole CG, Heyns M. 2019. Animal models in forensic science research: justified use or ethical exploitation? Sci Eng Ethics. 25(4): 1095-1110.

2018

2017

  • Peddle L, Kirk GM. 2017. Post-mortem organ weights at a South African Mortuary. Am J Forensic Med Pathol. 38: 277 – 282. https://doi.org/10.1097/PAF.0000000000000340 
  • Reid KM, Maistry S, Ramesar RS, Heathfield LJ. 2017. A review of the optimisation of the use of formalin fixed paraffin embedded tissue for molecular analysis in a forensic post-mortem setting. Forensic Sci Int. 280: 181-187. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2017.09.020 
  • Abrahams N, Mathews S, Lombard C, Martin LJ, Jewkes R. 2017. Sexual homicides in South Africa: A national cross-sectional epidemiological study of adult women and children. PLoS ONE. 12(10): e0186432. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0186432 
  • Heathfield LJ, Maistry S, Martin LJ, Ramesar RS, de Vries J. 2017. Ethical considerations of forensic genetics research on tissue samples collected post-mortem. BMC Med Ethics. 18(66): 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12910-017-0225-6 
  • Clark C, Mole CG, Heyns M. 2017. Patterns of blunt force homicide in the West Metropole of the City of Cape Town, South Africa. S Afr J Sci. https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2017/20160214

2016

  • Abrahams N, Mathews S, Martin LJ, Lombard C. 2016. Gender differences in homicide of neonates, infants, and children under 5 y in South Africa: Results from the cross-sectional 2009 National Child Homicide Study. PLoS Med. 13(4):e1002003. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002003 
  • Groenewald P, Bradshaw D, Neethling I, Martin, LJ, Dempers J, Morden, E. 2016. Linking mortuary data improves vital statistics on cause of death of children under five years in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. Trop Med Int Health. 21(1):114–121. https://doi.org/10.1111/tmi.12624 
  • Mathews S, Martin LJ, Coetzee D, Scott C, Brijmohun Y. 2016. Child deaths in South Africa: lessons from the child death review pilot. S Afr Med J. 06(9):851–852. https://doi.org/10.7196/SAMJ.2016.v106i9.11382.4 
  • Mathews S, Martin LJ, Coetzee D, Scott C, Naidoo T, Brijmohun Y, et al. 2016. The South African child death review pilot: A multiagency approach to strengthen healthcare and protection for children. S Afr Med J. 106(9): 895-9. https://doi.org/10.7196/SAMJ.2016.v106i9.11234 
  • Maistry S, Phillips V. Case Report: A self-inflicted bite mark. 2016. S Afr Dent J. 71(2):77–76.
  • Mathews S, Martin LJ. 2016. Developing an understanding of fatal child abuse and neglect: Results from the South African child death review pilot study. S Afr Med J. 106: 12. https://doi.org/10.7196/SAMJ.2016.V106I12.12130 

2015

  • Kasu M, Shires K. 2015. The validation of forensic DNA extraction systems to utilize soil contaminated biological evidence. Leg Med. 17(4):232–238. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.legalmed.2015.01.004 
  • Matzopoulos R, Prinsloo M, Wyk VP, Gwebushe N, Mathews S, Martin LJ. et al. 2015. Injury-related mortality in South Africa: a retrospective descriptive study of post-mortem investigations. Bull World Health Organ. 93:303–313.
  • Tredoux S, Mfolozi S, Shires, K. 2015. Efficiency of buccal DNA sampling device in the mortuary. J Forensic Inves. 3(2):1–6.
  • Mole CG, Heyns M, Cloete T. 2015. How hard is hard enough? An investigation of the force associated with lateral blunt force trauma to the porcine cranium. Leg Med (Tokyo). 17(1): 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.legalmed.2014.07.008 

2014

  • Heathfield L. 2014. Policy required for entry of DNA profiles onto the National Forensic DNA Database of South Africa. S Afr J Sci. 110(7/8):1–3. https://doi.org/10.1590/sajs.2014/20130374 
  • Heathfield LJ, Dalvie S, Kalideen K, Dandara C. 2014. Novel CYP2E1 haplotype identified in a South African cohort. S Afr J Sci. 110(9/10):1-5. https://doi.org/10.1590/sajs.2014/20130324 
  • Naidoo N, Artz L, Martin LJ, Mustafa Z. 2014. “A stitch in time…may save nine”: A systematic synthesis of the evidence for domestic violence management and prevention in Emergency Care. Afr Safety Promo Journal. 12(2):30–48.