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Citation

Pfeiffer H, Du Chesne A, Brinkmann B. Int. J. Legal Med. 2006; 120(1): 36-41.

Affiliation

Institute of Legal Medicine, Röntgenstr. 23, 48149, Münster, Germany, pfeiffh@uni-muenster.de.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s00414-005-0049-7

PMID

16254729

Abstract

A young woman was found dead in a bath-tub with her facial orifices under water and current burn marks at the right big toe and at the neck near the hairline. Initial police investigations assumed an accidental electric shock due to a radio falling into the water. The forensic autopsy was followed by extensive histology and immunohistochemistry of the internal organs and skin marks. Intensive vital reactions of a near-drowning were detected that suggested a survival period of at least 20 min. Furthermore, an energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy analysis on the current burn marks and on possible current applicators was performed, as well as reconstruction experiments with a cadaver of a pig that had been slaughtered shortly before. The results of all investigations revealed a two-step procedure with a primary near-drowning and a final current application with consecutive cardiac arrest.

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