@article{ref1,
title="Suicidal gunshot to the nape from a small-bore rifle",
journal="Archiv für Kriminologie",
year="2008",
author="Lüderwald, Sybille and Mützel, Elisabeth and Graw, M. and Eisenmenger, W. and Peschel, Oliver",
volume="221",
number="1-2",
pages="36-42",
abstract="A 55-year-old man was found dead on the bed lying on his side in a pool of blood with a bullet entrance hole in the nape. Behind his body, a semi-automatic rifle Remington Nylon, cal. .22 LR, was detected. As the gunshot entrance site was rather unusual for suicide, a forensic autopsy was performed, which showed a contact shot to the nape with the bullet path running upward to the left frontal area. The man had been treated with citalopram for delusional depression, so that a suicidal act seemed plausible, and the autopsy and criminalistic findings were also compatible with this assumption. A remarkable fact of the present case is that a long firearm had been used. Reports on suicidal shots to the nape are comparatively rare in the medicolegal literature and usually refer to pistols or revolvers.<p /> <p>Language: de</p>",
language="de",
issn="0003-9225",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}