Citation

Durão C, Machado MP, Daruge Junior E. Forensic Sci. Int. 2015; 253: e1-e3.

Affiliation

Department of Forensic Dentistry, Dental Faculty of Piracicaba, State University of Campinas, FOP-UNICAMP, Brazil.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.forsciint.2015.05.012

PMID

26037210

Abstract

Death in the "microwave oven" has nothing to do with microwaves energy. It is the jargon name given to a criminal form of execution by carbonization that has been adopted by drug dealers in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). The goal is to torture and intimidate victims, in an attempt of corpse occultation and to make identification harder or impossible. This paper brings to attention of the forensic international community an unusual and very cruel form of execution as a way to document these situations.

Language: en