Homicide-suicide (dyadic death): a case study of double hanging |
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Authors: | du Plessis Marna Hlaise Keven Khazamula |
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Affiliation: | Department of Forensic Medicine, Medunsa Campus of University of Limpopo, Medunsa, South Africa. marna_duplessis@yahoo.com |
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Abstract: | Murder-suicide, homicide-suicide, and dyadic death all refer to an incident where a homicide is committed followed by the perpetrator's suicide almost immediately or soon after the homicide. Homicide-suicides are relatively uncommon and vary from region to region. In the selected literature that we reviewed, shooting was the common method of killing and suicide, and only 3 cases of homicidal hanging involving child victims were identified. We present a case of dyadic death where the method of killing and suicide was hanging, and the victim was a young woman. |
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