Citation

Divella G, Grattagliano I, Romanelli MC, Duval JB, Catanesi R. Clin. Ter. 2017; 168(3): e173-e177.

Affiliation

Section of Criminology and Forensic Psychyatric, Interdisciplinary Department of Medicine, University of Bari, Italy.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, Societa Editrice Universo)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

28612891

Abstract

Parricide is a category of homicide in which the victims are the parents, and the killers, their children. The authors report a case of a 45-year-old man who killed his 73-year-old widowed father in an extremely violent manner: he struck the father in the head with a wooden wash board, stabbed him with a pair of scissors and several times with a screwdriver. Afterwards, he kicked the victim in the face and jumped up and down on his body, thereby crushing the father's chest with his weight. The case reported here may be classified as an "unusual patricide" when one considers the age of the aggressor, the diagnosis of psychiatric disorders, that the victim was the father, and that the murder was committed in an extremely violent manner.

Language: en

Keywords

Forensic pathology; Forensic psychiatry; Overkilling; Patricide; Violence