Citation

Behera C, Rautji R, Sikary AK, Kumar R, Vidua RK, Millo T, Gupta SK. Med. Sci. Law 2014; 55(1): 50-53.

Affiliation

All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, British Academy of Forensic Sciences, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0025802414524951

PMID

24644221

Abstract

Filicide-suicide is a special category of homicide-suicide event where the victim(s) are children and the perpetrator is one of the parents or both. It is not extensively documented or adequately defined in literature. In developed countries, shooting is a common method of homicide and suicide. Uses of knives, blunt objects, strangulation, poisoning and drowning are other methods frequently employed by the perpetrator. Homicide by hanging in filicide-suicide is rarely reported in forensic literature. We present a rare case of filicide-suicide, where the mother killed both her children by hanging them one by one from a ceiling fan in the same room and later committed suicide by hanging in another room.

Language: en