Citation

Olze H, Hosse U, Rosenbaum F, Schmeling A, Schneider V. Arch. Kriminol. 2005; 215(3-4): 85-93.

Vernacular Title

Totung durch Halsstich mit anschliessender versuchter Selbsttotung durch

Affiliation

Aus der Hals-Nasen-Ohren-Klinik (CVK) der Charité, Universitätsmedizin Berlin.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, Verlag Schmidt-Romhild)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

15887781

Abstract

A 37-year-old Turkish woman was fatally injured by her 65-year-old Turkish husband with a stab to the cervical region. After her death he inflicted a deep cut to his own neck, which he survived thanks to immediate medical assistance. To the authors' knowledge this combination of a homicidal stab to the neck and a suicidal cut to the neck has not been described before. Kosher butchering, which is common in the couple's traditional cultural environment, is discussed as possible reason for the choice of the neck as site for applying sharp violence. It may have induced the perpetrator to choose this anatomical region.