Citation

Driever F, Dettmeyer R, Madea B. Arch. Kriminol. 2003; 211(1-2): 27-32.

Vernacular Title

Ungewohnliche Verletzungslokalisation bei postmortalem Tierfrass unter der

Affiliation

Institut für Rechtsmedizin, Universität Bonn.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2003, Verlag Schmidt-Romhild)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

12635488

Abstract

The authors report on a woman who died on the age of 75 years and who was found dead in her dwelling with an extensive injury of the left thigh two days after the last sign of life. Together with the corpse a poodle was present in the dwelling. Due to the unusual localization totally beneath the clothes (trousers) and the morphology of the injury an unnatural cause of death was suspected. According to the autopsy findings and the histological results, postmortal animal scavenging caused by the poodle remained the only explanation for the injury. Supplementary DNA testing yielded final certainty.

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