Citation

Perdekamp MG, Pircher R, Geisenberger D, Pollak S. Arch. Kriminol. 2018; 241(3-4): 110-129.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Verlag Schmidt-Romhild)

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Abstract

A 52-year-old part-time farmer was found hanged in the barn next to his house. He was hanging in a slip-knot fixed to a beam of the roof without contact to the floor. In the parietal region, which was covered by thick hair, there was a sharply defined wound with minor powder soot blackening of the surrounding skin. The head injury had been caused by a slaughterer's gun (Kerner type) found on the floor of the barn near the hanged man. The shot to the head was associated with secondary skull fractures of the bony skull base - A phenomenon rarely reported in context with captive-bolt guns. Another finding associated with the hanging was a retroperitoneal, obviously tension-related blood extravasation around the left ureter, which has never been reported in connection with suspensions so far. © 2018 Verlag Schmidt-Romhild. All rights reserved.

Language: de

Keywords

Complex suicide; Captive-bolt gun; In head injury from a slaughterer's gun; Retroperitoneal blood extravasation due to hanging; Secondary skull fracture