FORENSIC PATHOLOGY REVIEWS Volume 1 - Securimetric

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Fig. 4. (A,B) AAD of a 38-year-old man who was found dead hanging in a
plastic sack. The rope for hanging was fixed to a permanent hook on the ceiling.
The cause of death was atypical strangulation owing to a neck ligature
which was actually a dog collar. (Courtesy of Dr. Michael Tsokos, Hamburg,
Germany.)
of a 56-year-old man who was found dead in a head-down position, hanging
in a sack (60,61). Death was caused by asphyxia owing to compression of the
chest and by insufficient blood supply to the heart caused by the head down
position. Minyard communicated an AAD of a 34-year-old security guard who
had wrapped his complete body with clear adhesive tape (7). A snorkel apparatus
protruded from one end of the wrapping. Within his cocoon, the victim
was found nude except for a rubber hat on his head. The snorkel device had
become detached from the face and mouth area where it had been inserted. In
the left hand of the victim, a pocket knife for use as an escape mechanism was
found. The knife blade protruded through the wrapping over the man’s left
hand. O’Halloran and colleagues (49) reported an interesting case, where the
victim had tied his ankles to a segment of pipe so that his legs were spread. A