Dismemberment of Victims in Colombia

Sanabria-Medina, César; Restrepo, Hadaluz Osorio

doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-811912-9.00002-2

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“…With a machete, the complete separation of the femur through the thigh would not have been possible in this experiment. However, with the serrated bread knife the tissue could have been cut at the same time as the bone, shredding the surrounding muscle with a "to-and-fro motion" like a saw, cutting through by compression in the direction in which the blade is moving [30,40], thus, allowing complete amputation. Even though the present experiment is a pilot study, the results seem to indicate that, due to the weapon type and the way in which the trauma was inflicted on the same anatomical region, two implements can have different post-burning toolmark survival ratios; only one observed toolmark was made with the machete.…”

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“…The knee, hand, and feet were injured using only the serrated knife in order to simulate an attempted dismemberment through articular surfaces [34]. The ilium was injured only with the machete to simulate an attempted mutilation through the middle of the cadaver [30]. Due to the cadavers' state of decomposition, described in Table 3, the attempted dismemberment was not possible in all anatomical regions.…”

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“…Despite the different methodologies, all of the authors agree that sharp force trauma can be detected and recognized by direct macroscopic observation after exposed to fire damage; some features are more clearly visible after burning, but others may be lost due to bone fragmentation [24]. Linear cuts and sharp edges are maintained [22], sharp force trauma induced with knives leaves a characteristic V-shape [19], sharp force trauma induced with saws leaves a square or U-shape in a cross-section [21,24,28], and chopping trauma forms a V or U-shaped cross-section, depending on the thickness of the blade [18,29,30]. It has also been proven that trauma morphology is distinguishable from thermal damage [15,19].…”

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Through fire and flames: post-burning survival and detection of dismemberment-related toolmarks in cremated cadavers

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Márquez‐Grant

Rojas³

et al. 2020

Int J Legal Med

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We would like to express our gratitude to the funerary services of Madrid, Spain (Servicios Funerarios de la Comunidad de Madrid) for supporting this project and for the technical assistance provided during the use of the cremation furnace, through the cooperation agreement signed in 2017 with the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, Spain. We would also like to thank the Forensic Anthropology and Odontology Lab members at Universidad Complutense de Madrid for their help during the sharp force trauma experiment and validation. Finally, we kindly thank Daniel García Rubio for his assistance in designing the tables and figures.

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Section: Sharp Force Traumamentioning

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Through fire and flames: post-burning survival and detection of dismemberment-related toolmarks in cremated cadavers

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Rojas³

et al. 2020

Int J Legal Med

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“…In cases of criminal dismemberment, perpetrators often performed the dismemberment in the location where the homicide occurred and relied on readily available tools, which generally included knives, axes, and wood or metal saws [8,11–15]. The type of dismemberment commonly encountered in a medicolegal context is classified as defensive dismemberment, in which the purpose is to ease the concealment and transportation of the body, delay discovery by erasing traces of the crime, and prevent identification of the victim [5,7,11,13,16–19].…”

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Correlation between saw blade width and kerf width

Menschel

Pokines

Reinecke

2020

Journal of Forensic Sciences

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The author would like to thank Boston University, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, and the faculty of the Forensic Anthropology program for the use of facilities and funds. Thanks to Dr. James Pokines for his assistance in conducting the research and for his contributions as my advisor and first reader. The author would also like to thank Agent Reinecke in his role as second reader. Thank you to Qi Huang, Xiaofei We, Chuning Yuan, and Kelly C. Kung of the MSSP statistical consulting service, under the guidance of Professor Allen G. Harbaugh, for their assistance. A special thank you to the women in my cohort who have become good friends who have provided me with their support and welcomed diversions throughout this process. Special thanks to Reshma Satish and Savannah Mills for assisting me during my data collection.

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“…There are several reasons to alter the body after death: to destroy the evidence of the crime, to facilitate the transportation of the body, to prevent the identification of the deceased, and to hide the proof of murder [1][2][3][4][5]. One well-known method of cadaveric modification is dismemberment, albeit it is more common in armed conflicts [6][7][8][9] than in individual domestic cases [10][11][12][13][14].…”

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Dismemberment as a Method of Body Disposal in Spanish Forensic Cases

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This study provides an overview of victim and offender data, the cause and manner of death, the dismemberment type, the post-dismemberment alteration, and the forensic investigation, for 35 Spanish forensic cases. The main aim of this study was to perform a retrospective analysis of dismemberment and body part alteration in Spain since 1990, in particular relating to burning. The sample was selected from a Spanish national database on criminal records (CENDOJ). Official court records were examined for 96 variables, which were analysed through non-metric multidimensional scaling analysis (nMDS). The results obtained revealed that the number of dismemberment cases between 1990 and 2016 totalled 35 (amounting to a total of 40 bodies) with an incidence of 0.29% of the total number of homicide cases in the database. Most of the aggressors were Spanish adult males, and the victims were adult females of foreign nationality. The most commonly employed tool used to kill and dismember was the knife. A total of 15.00% of the 40 bodies were further altered by fire. It was concluded that dismemberment and other postmortem actions contributed to complicating the forensic investigation and hindering the identification of the deceased.

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Dismemberment of Victims in Colombia

Cited by 5 publications

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Through fire and flames: post-burning survival and detection of dismemberment-related toolmarks in cremated cadavers

Through fire and flames: post-burning survival and detection of dismemberment-related toolmarks in cremated cadavers

Correlation between saw blade width and kerf width

Dismemberment as a Method of Body Disposal in Spanish Forensic Cases

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