Homicide
Australia. This middle aged adult male has blunt- and sharp-force trauma injuries to the head and neck after…
On May 2, 2009, at approximately 1:30 in the morning, attorneys Barbara Scharton and Daniel Lyons, were murdered…
Multiple irregularly distributed deep stab wounds to the head and back: homicide by a perpetrator suffering from paranoid…
A 41-year-old woman, from Lalitpur, Kathmandu, Nepal, who was decapitated by her husband in their bedroom. The victim…
Explosive-induced trauma of the upper posterior part of the trunk with decapitation and gaping lacerations of the superior…
Russia. A mentally ill man killed his mentally ill mother. According to the son, the mother was possessed…
2012. The New York Police Department (NYPD) received a call informing them of a possible homicide. The informant…
Spain. Homicide carried out by two attackers at the same time; one with a normal knife, and another…
Turkey. A 54-year-old male was found murdered in prison by his cellmate. Examination of the scene and the…
New York. This individual was murdered by his male partner. Note the increased level of violence and “overkill”-type…
Mexico. A 42-year-old man was murdered and left out in the field. Animal scavenging had occurred to his…
When deaths are violent, suspicious, sudden, and unexpected, a Medical Examiner performs a post-mortem examination. Medical examiners specialize…
In March 2012 a charred corpse was found near the Shkotovo-Artem highway in Russia. The corpse was discovered…
Distant range stellate entrance wound on the forehead. Distant gunshot wounds of the head may have a stellate…
Italy. A 73-year-old woman was found dead in her own home by the police. The police intervened because…
Lehigh Acres, Florida, US, 2002. A 63-year-old woman lived with her 34-year-old son in a residential neighborhood in…
Italy. A 53-year-old female psychiatrist was fatally stabbed in her office in a Mental Health Center by a…
The Rettendon murders (also known as the Range Rover murders or Essex boys murders) occurred on 6 December…
Spain. The trauma to the scalp was inflicted with a blunt object (glass ashtray). The wounds could be…
Homicidal cut throat. No further info. Cut throats can be homicidal, suicidal or accidental. Homicidal cut-throats are a…
Facial injuries sustained when a letter bomb exploded as it was being opened. No further info. It is…
This individual has been stabbed multiple times in the chest and abdomen, the body has been washed at…
A war crimes investigation in Serbia and Republika Srpska of a beheaded Serb by a Bosnian Al-Qaeda terrorist…
Bronx, New York City. This is the victim of a rape–homicide that occurred in an unoccupied apartment within…
A 23-year-old police officer was killed while on duty. The victim was attacked by multiple assailants, and one…
France. A 59-year-old woman was assaulted by her son with a Japanese sword (katana) with a total length…
San Rafael del Yuma, Dominican Republic - 2019. Janel Aquiles Cedano de León, a 35 year old teacher…
Russia. This individual has multiple cut wounds and slash wounds on his face. No further info. Slash wounds…
Nassau County, New York. The body of a homicide victim recovered from the waters with the hands still…
This woman was murdered and dismembered, and her face peeled off. No further info. Fig.1 The woman had…
A 25-year-old woman had moved in with her 34-year-old boyfriend 3 weeks earlier. The brother of the boyfriend…
Colombia - November 2003. Six police officers died in a road explosion by guerrilla group FARC. According to…
This middle-aged male individual was located in a burnt-out car with a knife protruding from his neck. This…
Nassau County, New York. This badly burned body had been dumped at an outside location where animals fed…
Between 1989 and 1996 three women were sexually assaulted, strangled, and killed in Yonkers, New York, by an…
Mexico City, Mexico - February 9, 2020, a woman was brutally murdered by her partner who skinned and…
Pasadena, Texas, 1975. The nude body of 22-year-old Deborah Elizabeth Hester was found strangled in her apartment. She…
Australia - This middle-aged male individual was assaulted in his home. When the individual was located his ankles…
October 1998 - Bellingham, Washington, US. 20-year-old Keri Lynn was visiting relatives in Bellingham, Washington, and she had…
Australia. This male individual died from sharp-force injuries to the chest and left wrist in the setting of…
Chicago, Illinois. The victim of a lust murder, who had been stabbed multiple times in the chest with…
Dumped body (Illinois State Police case Highway 64). Animal scavenging on face and left arm. This victim was…
Pontiac, Michigan, US. On Tuesday, July 11, 1995, the nude and battered body of Margaret Midkiff, a 43-year-old,…
Indian River County, Florida, US. On July 26, 1983, David Alan Gore and his cousin, Fred Waterfield, were…
Homewood, Alabama, US. On March 9, 1990, Homewood Police responded to a report of a murder from the…
Los Angeles. A murder case showing sex-related mutilation. No further info about this case. A lust murder is…
Township of Van Buren, Michigan. Police received an anonymous call reporting a body of a female in an…
On February 21, 1997, at approximately 4:09 p.m., the Pottawatomie County, Kansas, Sheriff’s Department took a missing person’s…
I colorized the original black and white images. Poland, 1999. A 26-year-old man killed his father by multiple…
This individual has stippling around the gunshot entrance wounds of the face, intermediate range, no further info. Stippling…
A 39-year-old prostitute stabbed and beaten. Nipples cut off and “skinned” in pubic and perineal region. No further…
Italy. When a 38-year-old policeman did not arrive at work and could not be reached by telephone, two…
In this particular case, the badly charred and burned remains of the victim of a kidnapping, rape, and…
This middle-aged individual was involved in an altercation with another male relating to the manufacture of amphetamines. Circumstantial…
This deceased individual has multiple stab wounds on the back from the same knife, showing differing shapes and…
The decomposing body of a woman was discovered in a bathroom in Indonesia, no further info. Putrefaction begins…
Catastrophic disruption of the head after a distant range discharge. Homicide with a 30-06 Springfield rifle. Note petal…
The partially clad body of a 22-year-old female, who had been beaten and sexually mutilated, was discovered in…
Contact gunshot wound to the eye. Note the lacerations of the eyelid and eye globe with soot deposition…
A series of murders occurred in Washington State in 1990. The murders began in Bellevue, Washington, in June…
An elderly male was found dead, slightly decomposed, lying on a couch with a pair of scissors protruding…
This victim’s throat was slashed. No further info about this case. Slash wounds occur as a result of…
East Lake, Ohio. Police who had responded to an emergency call discovered a woman named Susan murdered in…
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, US. On November 3 1998, a man and a woman encountered a gunman on the front…
Grand Prairie, Texas - The victim’s throat was slashed by her assailant during a sexual assault and murder.…
Case scenario April 2019 - Mönchengladbach, Germany. Two men had met on a bus and after a conversation…
Homicidal cut throat, showing single slash with no tentative cuts. Clean-cut edges with no sign of repetitive strokes,…
Sacramento, California, USA. On December 29, 1977. A 51-year-old man, who had exited his house to retrieve groceries…
This individual was murdered and stabbed with various kitchen utensils, no further info about this case. The general…
2011 - Portage, Indiana, USA. A 19-year-old woman named Amanda A.B. was reported missing by her father on…
In Germany, a 65-year-old woman told police that she killed her 71-year-old husband the previous evening and then…
Contact-range discharge to the left side of the neck (12 G shotgun, homicide). (left image) Exit site on…
April 1995 - East Wenatchee, WA, USA. A young woman discovered the bodies of her mother and sister.…
This photograph illustrates the devastating effect of a high-powered weapon placed into the mouth of a suicide victim.…
I colored and upscaled the original low quality black and white image, quality is rather poor. Chopping wounds…
King County, WA, USA. This woman was found dead at her residence. She has been stabbed multiple times…
On Halloween night, 1979, at approximately 10:30 p.m. Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris abducted their final victim, 16-year-old…
Spain. This is a case of gender-based violence and murder, with the perpetrator subsequently killing themselves (i.e., murder-suicide)…
This individual was found in a state of decomposition inside plastic bags buried in soil. No further info…
Incised wounds of the neck can be accidental, homicidal or suicidal. Accidental wounds are extremely rare, usually seen…
This woman was strangled and died, note the scleral hemorrhages and petechiae, larger scleral hemorrhages can be seen…
On March 13, 1999, in San Luis Obispo, California, Aundria Crawford was reported missing by her mother. Aundria’s…
Identification of decomposed remains requires techniques such as forensic odontology, forensic anthropology, and/or DNA typing. This victim was…