Medico-Legal Update
  • Year: 2018
  • Volume: 18
  • Issue: 1

A Case of suicide by a Large Number of sharp Force Injuries

  • Author:
  • Pasquale Giugliano1, Alessandro Feola2,, Francesco La Sala3, Carmela Buonomo1, Bruno Della Pietra3
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • Page Number: 10 to 12

1A.O.R.N. “Sant'Anna and San Sebastiano”, Via Palasciano, Caserta, Italy

2Department of Biomedicine and prevention, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, via Montpellier 1, Rome, Italy

3Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, via L. Armanni 5, Naples, Italy

*Corresponding Author: Dr. Alessandro Feola, Dipartimento di Biomedicina e Prevenzione, via Montpellier 1, 00133, Roma, Italy. Email: alessandro.feola@icloud.com

Online published on 6 January, 2018.

Abstract

A 36-year-old psychotic man was found dead in a field that was not far from the location where he used to live. An external examination showed more than 100 sharp force wounds that were localized at the lumbosacral region, gluteal regions, and the lower limbs, but not on the face, neck, chest, and abdomen. Data from judicial inspection and autopsy findings suggested suicidal death due to hemorrhagic shock by superficial venous vessel lesions.

Keywords

suicide, stabbing, cutting, autopsy