1Additional Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi-110029
2Ex Senior resident, Department of Forensic Medicine, All India Institute of Medical sciences, New Delhi-110029 Email: shinto.devassy@gmail.com
3Ex Senior resident, Department of Forensic Medicine, All India Institute of Medical sciences, New Delhi-110029 Email: hemant4u3@gmail.com
4Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, All India Institute of Medical sciences, New Delhi-110029 Email: drvarunchandran@gmail.com
*Corresponding Author Dr. Chittaranjan Behera, Additional Professor Department of Forensic Medicine, All India Institute of Medical sciences, New Delhi-110029, India Email: drchitta75@rediffmail.com
Online published on 21 March, 2022.
A coupleand their two daughterswere found lying in a pool of blood in the 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.
Familicide-suicide, Safety razor blade, Cut throat, Hesitation cut, Posterior neck
