Citation

Gips H, Yannai U, Hiss J. J. Forensic Leg. Med. 2007; 14(5): 293-296.

Affiliation

The National Center of Forensic Medicine, Tel Aviv, Israel. hadas.gips@forensic.health.gov.il

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

17715515

Abstract

This paper presents the case of 52-year-old man who died in an attempt to prove factitious allegations of persecution. To the best of our knowledge, there are no other reported cases of a self-inflicted, long-distance gunshot injury causing death. We discuss other cases of crime-scene "staging" and review the literature on factitious disorders and malingering in our search for motive, and stress again the importance of crime scene analysis and investigation of circumstances in determining the manner of death.

Language: en