Citation

Ambade VN, Tumram NK, Dixit PG. Egypt. J. Forensic Sci. 2016; 6(3): 315-316.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Forensic Medicine Authority of Egypt, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.ejfs.2015.10.001

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Suicide notes are usually written with pen or marker on a paper, notebook, wall or mirror. However, suicide notes written on one's own body is very rare, and suicide note engraved with some metallic object on the body has not been reported yet. In the present suicidal death, the victim while carving some letters on the left arm with a razor had an incidental cut on right thumb. This incidental cut on the palm may be referred as "cutaneous cut sign" which gives a clue that the carving on the body with a sharp object was written by the victim himself. It also provides an additional importance of examination of palm for the presence of supportive evidences. © 2015

Language: en

Keywords

Suicide note; Sharp object; Body writing; Carving on body; Cutaneous cut sign; Palm examination