Unusual ligature mark after strangulation and skin maceration

Schiraldi, M.; Raniero, Dario

doi:10.1080/00450618.2023.2225558

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“…The authors decided to use tridimensional reconstruction of the scene and prepare 3D simulation models to make educated guesses about the circumstances of death. The main applications of geomatic techniques in forensics are violent crime scene analysis, traffic collisions, fingerprint analysis, footwear analysis, facial reconstruction, blood pattern analysis, and bullet trajectory analysis [21][22][23][24][25]. To the best of our knowledge, no other case of a 3D reconstruction of a hanging has bene described in the literature.…”

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“…Modern scanners can record at high-speed capture rates with unprecedented levels of accuracy, while also recording the color information to A hanging ligature mark is a single mark that does not entirely encircle the neck and becomes most profound opposite the suspension point [14]. On the other hand, a strangulation ligature mark completely encircles the neck horizontally, overlying the larynx or upper trachea, and is continuous and homogeneous [21].…”

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Establishing the Manner of Death: A 3D Reconstruction of a Case of Hanging

Benevento,

Ambrosi,

Maselli

et al. 2023

Forensic Sciences

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Establishing the manner of death is one of the most challenging tasks for forensic pathologists. We present the case of a 24-year-old woman found dead in the early morning on a flyover. The body was sitting on the ground with the back leaning against a wall. The neck was encircled by a white phone charger cable knotted to the staircase’s handrail. The victim had argued with her boyfriend and tried to jump out of his car while coming home from a wedding party the night before. After that, she left home alone with her phone charger in her hand. Due to self-harm behaviors, the first hypothesis was suicide by hanging. However, the ligature crossed immediately beneath the thyroid cartilage and encircled the neck twice horizontally; the two ends of the cable overlapped, forming a cross-over point in the front-right of the neck. Then, the ligature passed obliquely through the nape, gradually disappearing, forming a gap in the mark. The mark was sharply defined, stiff, yellow, and parchment-like. The investigators performed a three-dimensional scene reconstruction using the Trimble X7 Laser Scanner and the PC-Crash Multibody System. Even though the geometry of the ligature mark in the present case raised doubts about the manner of death, the three-dimensional reconstruction confirmed that the hanging was feasible without any external intervention.

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