real murder or death, if involve chinese in malaysia, whatever dialect they speak
example the penang insurance agent that got murdered, his body once found, delivered to the paya terubong hokkien columbarium, and 3 days later done with cremation/burial
“三日入殮,五日出殯” — coffin within 3 days, burial or cremation within 5 days.
Even today, though modern facilities exist, most families maintain this timing because:
Respect for the body: it should not decay or smell in the house.
Convenience for relatives: people can gather and finish the rites before the seventh day (頭七).
Continuity of custom: “三日之喪” appears in Confucian texts, and became a social norm.
most of the time the chinese deceased family will demand the body to be delivered to them asap so the deceased can go through these procession.
if you see some body kena murdered by knife and the body kept by forensic for so many weeks, u know its wayang only, those who got brain should know. if real chinese, sure cremation/burial very fast so the deceased can rip.
forensics would take many high resolution, closed-up pics of the corpse for later analysis
or in some extreme cases like TBH, exhumed from grave to be dissected for second time