terribly sorry. my previous question was phrased incorrectly therefore, here is the correct question. how did you come

Question: terribly sorry. my previous question was phrased incorrectly therefore, here is the correct question. how did you come to the theory of flies and using them to tell how long a person has been dead????
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  flies
Asked by rupert to Kat on 17 Mar 2011 in Categories: Scientist.
- Katherine Davies answered on 17 Mar 2011:
  
  Hi
  
  I personally did not discover this, it has been known since around the 13th century. The chinese solved a murder based on a swarm of flies around a bloodied scythe. It has only been in the last century or so that we have realised they can tell us how long a person has been dead. preliminary work was done on dogs; researchers examined the patterns of insects visiting a corpse throughout the decomposition process, and found that this was able to be replicated, thus used as an indicator of time since death.
  
  hope this helps

Question: terribly sorry. my previous question was phrased incorrectly therefore, here is the correct question. how did you come to the theory of flies and using them to tell how long a person has been dead????