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The rigidity gradually extends downward involving the neck, chest and arms, abdomen, and finally the legs and feet. For the entire body to be involved usually requires from about eight to twelve hours after death. The body will remain rigid for a variable length of time but generally from twelve to twenty-four hours. In certain cases it will last much longer, sometimes for as long as two or three days. Rigor mortis then begins to leave the body and it disappears in the same order that it made its onset.
When the blood has once settled, there is a certain amount of clotting which takes place in the tissues so that, if the body is moved after this has taken place, lividity will still be present. Consequently, when a dead body is found with postmortem lividity on the upper surface of the body, the investigator can be sure that someone has mo'L'ed that body from its position at a time at least several hours after death occurred. In deaths from carbon monoxide poisoning, the lividity may be cherry red instead of the usual blue or purple color.
Under certain conditions a stiffening of the hands or arms may take place immediately at the time of death. This is known as cadaveric spasm and is confused with rigor mortis in its general aspects. It is not uncommon that a person who has a firearm or knife in his hand at the time of death will continue to clutch it tenaciously following death. Frequently suicides will still have a gun or razor in their hand where it is held very tightly, although there is no rigor mortis present in other parts of the body.