@article{ref1,
title="Criminal corpse dismemberment in Hamburg, Germany from 1959 to 2016",
journal="Forensic science international",
year="2019",
author="Wilke-Schalhorst, N. and Schröder, A. S. and Puschel, K. and Edler, C.",
volume="300",
number="",
pages="145-150",
abstract="Cases of corpse dismemberment are rare, but occur most frequently in urban agglomerations. A distinction is made between defensive and offensive corpse dismemberment. This systematic review retrospectively assesses the phenomenology of 51 cases of corpse dismemberment (30 defensive and 21 offensive), which occurred in a period of 57 years and were subject to medico-legal autopsies performed at the Departement of Legal Medicine in Hamburg, Germany. The victims' gender ratio was 1.7:1 female to male. In most cases, the perpetrators were middle-aged men from the close social environment, who had no psychiatric primary illnesses, no experience in the medical sector, and had not worked professionally as a butcher. In 80% of the cases it was possible to establish the cause of death; the most frequent cause was injuries sustained through sharp force (15 cases). The cases are discussed within the context of the existing international literature on corpse dismemberment.<br><br>Copyright © 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0379-0738",
doi="10.1016/j.forsciint.2019.04.038",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2019.04.038"
}