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Chicago, Illinois. The victim of a lust murder, who had been stabbed multiple times in the chest with a barbecue fork. Note that the offender left the fork inserted into her chest below the left breast. She was also strangled with ligature and stabbed in the neck with a dinner fork.

Fig.1 The victim of a lust murder.

Fig.2 The woman had been stabbed multiple times in the chest with a barbecue fork.

Figs.3-4 shows a close-up of the left breast after the excess dried blood had been washed from the body. The medical examiner counted 23 penetrating stab wounds into the upper breast and chest. There should have been 24 wounds but apparently one of the tines of the barbecue fork reentered one of the other stab wounds.

Fig.3 The medical examiner counted 23 penetrating stab wounds into the upper breast and chest.

Fig.4 A close-up of the left breast after the excess dried blood had been washed from the body.

A lust murder is a homicide in which the offender searches for sexual satisfaction by killing someone. Lust murder is synonymous with the paraphilic term erotophonophilia, which is sexual arousal or gratification contingent on the death of a human being.

Fig.5 X-ray view of the barbecue fork.

Fig.6 Illustration of the wounds.

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