Citation

du Plessis M, Hlaise KK. Am. J. Forensic Med. Pathol. 2012; 33(3): 262-264.

Affiliation

Department of Forensic Medicine, Medunsa Campus of University of Limpopo, Medunsa, South Africa.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

10.1097/PAF.0b013e3182186f67

PMID

21464696

Abstract

Murder-suicide, homicide-suicide, and dyadic death all refer to an incident where a homicide is committed followed by the perpetrator's suicide almost immediately or soon after the homicide. Homicide-suicides are relatively uncommon and vary from region to region. In the selected literature that we reviewed, shooting was the common method of killing and suicide, and only 3 cases of homicidal hanging involving child victims were identified. We present a case of dyadic death where the method of killing and suicide was hanging, and the victim was a young woman.

Language: en