TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - Familicide-suicide by cut throat by a safety razor blade along withatypical hesitation wounds
JO  - International journal of medical toxicology and legal medicine
A1  - Behera, C.
A1  - Devassy, S.
A1  - Kanwar, H.K.
A1  - Chandran, V.A.
SP  - 52
EP  - 56
VL  - 24
IS  - 3-4
N2  - A coupleand their two daughterswere found lying in a pool of blood inthe bedroom by the police. A safety razor blade had been recovered at crime scenes. Cut throat injuries were present on all the persons. The husband brought dead to a hospital and later the younger daughter also succumbed to the injuries. Medico legal autopsy and investigation by the police confirmed the caseas familicide-suicide and the perpetrator was the husband.Hewas suspecting infidelity of his wife and was in depression.To the authors' knowledge both homicide and suicide by cut throat with a safety razor blade has not been described before.Also, in this paper, we are highlighting atypical hesitation cut on the posterior neck of the perpetrator. © 2021, Medico Legal Society. All rights reserved.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0972-0448
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.5958/0974-4614.2021.00056.5
ID  - ref1
ER  -