ArticleForensic science, medicine, and pathology2025
Postmortem mutilation in a case of natural death.
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- "Defensive" corpse dismemberment without prior criminal offence.Forensic science, medicine, and pathology · 2026Article
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Abstract
This is a case report of a postmortem dismemberment (removal of the head) of a 44-year-old man (the perpetrator was 39-years-old) who died of natural causes (massive pneumonia). The case was neither a defensive nor an offensive mutilation but could be properly termed a "communication" dismemberment. The assumption that a victim of dismemberment is always a victim of homicide is not true in this case. To our knowledge, this is one of the very rare cases in which a perpetrator who has nothing to do with the death dismembered a body. Gerchow's question about whether there has ever been a case in which someone who had nothing to do with the death dismembered a body can be answered with a "yes."
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