Citation

Adair TW, DeLong L, Dobersen MJ, Sanamo S, Young R, Oliver B, Rotter T. J. Forensic Sci. 2003; 48(5): 1113-1116.

Affiliation

Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office, 13101 E. Broncos Parkway, Centennial, CO 80112, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2003, American Society for Testing and Materials, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

14535677

Abstract

We present an unusual case in which an adult female committed suicide by fire while enclosed in the trunk of her vehicle. A finding of suicide was reached only because several key investigative facts were uncovered. Without these discoveries the case may still remain open as a suspicious death. Fire is rarely used as a mechanism of suicide in Western culture, and, as such, similar cases should be reported to advance our recognition of this phenomenon.

Language: en