Self-mutilation thought by the police to be a bizarre homicide. The genitals have been amputated, the throat cut through 360°, the eyeballs punctured and the scalp stabbed many times, all with scissors. The dead man had paranoid delusions of a religious nature.
Self-mutilations of the external genitals in psychiatric patients also known as Klingsor syndrome is a rare urologic trauma. Men with religious conflicts, low self-esteem, unresolved transsexual issues and feelings of guilt are the most vulnerable.
Fig.1 Self-mutilation thought by the police to be a bizarre homicide.
Fig.2 Complete self-amputation of the scrotum and penis with scissors.
Fig.3 The throat was cut through 360°.
Latest posts
The morbidity and mortality produced by obesity in the United States and other developed societies has reached epidemic…
On June 28, 2009, a 70-year-old male corpse was found in his house in Pisa. He was lying…
Skin burns on a victim of lysol suicide. The trickle pattern makes it obvious that the victim was…
A 42-year-old woman was discovered dead, the body was covered with fungal plaques. She had been leading a…
