Citation

Bungardt N, Ogbuihi S, Gross T, Rittner C. Arch. Kriminol. 2003; 211(1-2): 33-41.

Vernacular Title

Aussergewohnlicher Fall einer Totung mit anschliessendem Suizid.

Affiliation

Institut für Rechtsmedizin, Universität Mainz.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2003, Verlag Schmidt-Romhild)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

12635489

Abstract

In the medicolegal literature reports on homicides followed by suicide, especially in elderly people, are rare. In the present case, the victim, a 79-year-old woman, showed a rather unusual injury pattern: 3 gunshots to the head (with only 2 entrance wounds and 3 intracranial projectiles) and 2 stabs from a knife. The tools used for inflicting the stab wounds (a hunting knife and a double-edged dagger) were left in the victim's body after the offense. The 89-year-old husband hanged himself with an aerial cable after killing his wife. The police investigations and the autopsy findings suggested a combined homicide-suicide. The motive for the offense could be a so-called delusion of poverty associated with symptoms of depression.

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