Originally posted by Elfie
The question Gunslinger and I both have concerning rigor mortis isnt the fact that rigor mortis has set in. It's that some of the corpses have full blown rigor mortis and some are just in the initial stages. If all these people died when the building collapsed wouldnt their various stages of rigor mortis at least be similar? Temperature affects all the corpses in that building equally does it not?
I don't know the answer to your question , I just can point this :
You made some assumptions :
1 - all died at the same time
2 - temperature was homogeneous
3 - the bodies reacted the same
That said I can say if it's staged or not.