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Double homicide with a damning bite mark on the offender's body - case report

Publication at Third Faculty of Medicine |
2017

Abstract

The authors deal with a case of a double homicide, the parental murder made by their older son, which was committed by a combination of a stabbing and cutting wounds. The perpetrator tried to hide bodies, so he doused thenm with gasoline and set fire to them on a lonely forest road. then he ran over the remains by car. the cause of death was in both cases open wound of the neck.

During the combat, one of the victims - the mother - bit the assailant's left forearm. so a few days after creation the injury on murderer's left upper extremity, the policie technicians took photos and during forensic autopsies of both bodies, authors created the impressions of the teeth. The work was more difficult for the state of mortal remains, which were damaged by combination of fire and blunt violence. however finally the impressions of each arch were made, and they were given to the experts from Institute of Criminalistic Prague, who compared them with pictures of the bitemark.

The results of this analysis were used in a court as evidence against the perpetrator.