Citation

BouHaidar R, Lunyova ZM. Forensic Sci. Med. Pathol. 2005; 1(1): 61-63.

Affiliation

Forensic Pathology Unit University of Leicester, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Robert Kilpatrick Building, LE2 7LX, Leicester, United Kingdom, rb146@le.ac.uk.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1385/FSMP:1:1:061

PMID

25869838

Abstract

The examination of the body of a murdered adult female found in her apartment revealed the presence of a 6-inch screwdriver in the skull cavity that had been inserted through the medial border of the left eye. The presence of a small bruise around the medial aspect of the eye together with the absence of fresh hemorrhage along the tract of the screwdriver was consistent with a postmortem origin. Death, however, was caused by a large incised wound of the neck and multiple skull fractures consistent with hammer blows.

Language: en