Citation

Mekeres F, Buhas CL. Rom. J. Leg. Med. 2016; 24(1): 11-13.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Romanian Legal Medicine Society)

DOI

10.4323/rjlm.2016.11

PMID

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Abstract

In an attempt to reach the most rational explanation possible, a complex analysis and evaluation of the pros and cons for spontaneous human combustion, murder, suicide and domestic accident is required for the death in atypical circumstances of an 80-year-old man from a rural area, who had burns on 90% of his body. The analysis of research data from the scene and from the autopsy led us to the most reasonable explanation, that of a domestic accident caused by the accidental ignition of nylon fabric used for clothing.

Keywords: spontaneous human combustion, murder, suicide, domestic accidents.

Language: en