Citation

Dix J. Am. J. Forensic Med. Pathol. 1998; 19(4): 321-323.

Affiliation

Department of Pathology, University of Missouri-Columbia, 65212, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1998, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

9885924

Abstract

Two babies were smothered by their baby-sitter. The deaths happened 4 years apart. The baby-sitter was convicted based on a confession, not on the findings at autopsy. These cases illustrate the difficulty in distinguishing SIDS from suffocation homicide.

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