Citation

Radojević N, Curović I, Soć M. J. Forensic Leg. Med. 2013; 20(6): 575-577.

Affiliation

Department of Forensic Medicine, Clinical Centre of Montenegro, Ljubljanska 1, 20000 Podgorica, Montenegro. Electronic address: com_nr@yahoo.com.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.jflm.2013.06.008

PMID

23910835

Abstract

Ritual homicides may be affective (emotional), but usually they are premediated, instrumental, or predatory. In the case under review, the Facebook profile of the assailant helped to determine the motive of the homicide, which seemed to be ritualistic in nature. Therein, a 56-year-old male sustained 48 stab wounds and other knife injuries. On the wall in a room above the body, a pentagram was drawn with the victim's blood, followed by a few words which can be associated with a "Satanic" ritual. Searching through the Facebook profile of the culprit, Satanism as a leading motive of the homicide was eventually excluded. The most interesting point of this case was the evaluation of a sentence used as a Facebook status, which greatly contributed to confirm the paedophilic nature of the murder.

Language: en