A case of planned complex suicide

South Korea. Translated from Korean. The deceased is an unemployed 66-year-old man. After his divorce, he lived alone in a container studio apartment and had debt problems. He had a history of hypertension and diabetes. The owner of the container, who thought it was strange that there was no sign of presence recently, reported it to the police, the door was locked so the police forcefully opened to check the inside. The victim was hanging with plastic ropes on a treadmill to the right of the entrance, and leads were attached above the right ear. 220 V voltage alternating current from a household electrical outlet was used, and upon arrival at the site, the connected multi-tap power supply was switched on and electricity was flowing. On the table next to it was a cell phone, glasses, and a clothesline left over from hanging. The deceased was seated on the floor of the treadmill, with a waist belt connected to the abdomen and the treadmill fixed.

The string used to hang the neck was made of a clothesline and was made in a single layer. The rope was crossed in an X shape at the back of the neck in the form of an open loop, hung on the front handle of the treadmill, passed through the handle on both sides of the treadmill, and then the right leg inside the rope and pulled to fix the suspension point. After he peeled off the wire sheath of the electric cord and fixed it in place by knotting it with a clothesline, the wire was wrapped around the size control band behind the cap, and the stripped wire portion was put over the right ear. Then, a clothesline was wrapped around the entire head to secure the exposed wires for a second time. On extrinsic examination, there were congestion and multiple spot hemorrhages in the skin of the face and eyelids on both sides. There were electrical burn marks (current scars) on the right temple and the first joint of the right middle finger. This was determined to be a suicide by two methods, suffocation and electric shock, no autopsy was performed.