Erratum to: Int J Legal Med (2015) 129:435–443

DOI 10.1007/s00414-015-1165-7

The original version of this article, unfortunately, contained an error.

Africa Garcia-Orad’s name was incorrectly captured as Africa Garcia-Orad Carles; thus, resulting to Carles AG in indexing sites and when cited.

The correct name is now given in this article.