Victim's scalp on the killer's head. An unusual case of criminal postmortem mutilation |
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Authors: | Kunz J Gross A |
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Affiliation: | Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland. |
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Abstract: | A case of unusual postmortem mutilation of a victim's body is presented. After killing his father, the son decapitated his body and dissected the scalp free, forming a mask of the father's head and neck. The young man wore the scalp-mask over his own head to imitate the father. The motive of the murder was revenge, and the postmortem mutilation was the realization of the perpetrator's fantasies, symbolically representing a penalty for the reprehensible past life of his father. |
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