This individual has homicidal chop wounds. Chop wounds can be considered a combination of sharp and blunt force trauma, wherein a relatively bulky object with an edge, or a fast-moving object with an edge, impacts the body, resulting in injuries that have features of sharp force trauma as well as those of blunt force trauma.
Fig.1 Homicidal chop wounds.
Fig.2 After scalp removal.
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