Citation

Guddat SS, Schalinski S, Puschel K, Tsokos M, Schulz F. Arch. Kriminol. 2007; 220(1-2): 20-24.

Vernacular Title

Ein extremer Fall von "Undoing" bei einem erweiterten Suizid. Ein

Affiliation

Institut für Rechtsmedizin der Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, Verlag Schmidt-Romhild)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

17879703

Abstract

A 7-year-old boy was killed by his father by manual strangulation during a murder-suicide. After the killing of the son, the father showed typical "undoing" behaviour: He changed the boy's clothes and laid him down on the bed. Then he placed candles around his head, put pictures of the parents' wedding around him and a crucifix and a picture of the family into his hands. He broke off a rose in a vase next to the bed, lit the candles and took photographs of his dead son. Later he called his wife, threatened to kill the son and finally called the police to confess the murder and to announce his forthcoming suicide.

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