Suicide
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Suicidal cut throat. The wounds are horizontal, rather than the more common sloping-down from left to right in…
Spain. Decapitation of the head from a train suicide. Train suicides often result in severe and fatal injuries…
Fatalities caused by electrocution often lack specific morphologic evidence. Investigation of the death scene together with technical inspection…
The decedent was a 47-year old motor mechanic, who worked in a workshop in a rural community. He…
This individual committed suicide by drowning because of financial worries. Bodies removed from water show excessive gas production…
Suicidal gunshot wound to the head. No further info. At close range, the shotgun is the most formidable…
Russia. This individual committed suicide by laying on the train tracks, he then got decapitated from an arriving…
This man committed suicide by hanging, furrow marks are on the neck from the rope. Hanging is one…
Greece. The partially charred body of a man was found by fire department officers inside a burnt house.…
Italy. A 62-years old man, with a depressive syndrome in pharmacological treatment, was found dead in the parking…
Germany. A 31-year-old man lived with his 71-year-old mother and his pet German Shepherd in a converted garden…
Helium is one of inert gases causing physical asphyxiation, whose excess content in the breathing atmosphere reduces the…
Russia. At a local market, a man started cutting his neck and tried to remove his larynx, he…
Self-mutilation thought by the police to be a bizarre homicide. The genitals have been amputated, the throat cut…
Railway injuries are not uncommon, especially in countries with many ‘level crossings’ (called ‘grade crossings’ in the USA),…
This individual died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the right temple. The impression of the muzzle print…
Suicide by jumping from a building is not uncommon, and it is a method that has been used…
This individual bled to death after a cut throat injury. Cut-throat deaths involve deep incisions or lacerations across…
Autopsy photograph featuring protrusion with dark discoloration of the tongue due to postmortem drying, in a case of…
The finding illustrated is a group of sharp force injuries (incisions) that are self-inflicted, as evidenced by the…
Note the tissue tears extending from the sides of the mouth. These tears result from the large amount…
This individual committed suicide by hanging. When the body was found it was in an advanced state of…
Turkey. On October 4, 2024, Istanbul was shaken by a horrific incident where 19-year-old Semih Çelik brutally murdered…
This individual committed suicide by hanging. Postmortem animal activity can be seen on the ear and chin of…
This individual committed suicide with a shotgun blast to the head. The head is the most common location…
This individual has committed an under the chin suicide with a gun. The head is the most common…
Italy. A 19-year-old woman suffering from anorexia and depression (not pharmacologically treated) had experienced further exacerbation of her…
US. Shotgun suicide, c.a. 1940's, colorized. No further info. In the head, neck, and limbs, shotgun exit wounds…
Scene of suicide. The victim was a 57-year-old psychiatric inpatient who had left her ward unnoticed and jumped…
Perioral lacerations from an intraoral gunshot wound blowback from a closed mouth. In this intraoral gunshot wound, note…
Chicago, Illinois, US. In this case, the female victim’s body was discovered by a relative who went to…
This individual committed suicide with a gunshot to the head. Head injuries from shotguns and high-powered rifles are…
These photographs depict the body of a man in a bathtub, fully clothed and lying in the water.…
This man committed suicide by cutting his own neck. No further info. Cut throat is not the commonly…
Germany. In a case of extended suicide, a man killed his wife with a contact gunshot to the…
Russia. This individual committed suicide by laying on train tracks, she then got decapitated from an arriving train.…
New York. These photos depict a close-up of the victim and the extensive damage inflicted by the high…
Spain. Cross section of the body from a train suicide. No further info. Fig.1 Cross section of the…
This individual has been run over by a train causing extensive disintegration of the body. Railway injuries are…
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Suicide victim found in mid- to late stages of putrefaction. The marbled green, red, and…
Patterned injury on the gluteal area of a victim who jumped from the 5th floor of a building,…
In contact gunshot wounds with bony tissue underlying the injury, the injuries are typically called a stellate wound,…
A recently deceased 48-year-old male was found supine, in a wooded area (Fig.1). There was a belt around…
Spain. This middle-aged man committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning, he connected the exhaust to a tube that…
Circular saw cuts of the neck in a suicide, no further info. Accidental table saw injuries are common…
Cranial burst from a contact gunshot wound to the forehead. No further info. In the head, neck, and…
Spain. Maxillary fractures caused by shotgun blast suicide with entrance via the oral cavity. No further info. In…
This is the case of a 41-year-old male with a two-year history of depressed mood, for which he…
Spain. Suicide by hanging with two turns of the ligature and detail of the two furrows and jugular…
Germany - February 20, 2008. 32-year-old Matthias Schoormann, AKA Troll, had played guitar in a black metal band…
This individual committed suicide using a shotgun, no further info. The head is the most common location for…
Spain. There was no info if this was a suicide or an accident. Nitrous oxide is an inflammable…
Contact gunshot wound from a shotgun slug. The entrance wound can be seen under the chin and the…
This individual committed suicide with a gunshot under the chin using a rifle also resulting in a complete…
Suicide of a 53-year-old woman who inflicted cuts to both sides of her neck and to the flexor…
Explosive-induced trauma of the upper posterior part of the trunk with decapitation and gaping lacerations of the superior…
Spain. A middle-aged woman suffering from major depressive disorder who jumped out of a fourth floor window in…
Spain. This 55-year-old male was run over by a train with the intention of committing suicide. His family…
Spain. Mummification occurs in hot, dry environments. The body dehydrates and bacterial proliferation may be minimal. The skin…
This individual committed suicide by gunshot wound of the forehead. A large stellate contact entrance wound of the…
Almaty, Kazakhstan - 29 May 2013. A young couple committed suicide together by jumping off a 12-story building.…
The body of a man was seen floating in a lake near the shore. Once the body was…
This 28-year-old man committed suicide by cutting his throat, he was feeling depressed after a breakup with his…
This woman was found dead in bed, fully dressed. The upper front of her shirt was heavily blood-stained…
Germany. Suicidal cut of the throat by a chainsaw. No further info. Suicides involving the use of chainsaws…
A 47-year-old female was found lying unclothed on the kitchen floor at her home address. There was extensive…
South Korea. Translated from Korean. The deceased is an unemployed 66-year-old man. After his divorce, he lived alone…
Brazil. A woman committed suicide by throwing herself under a moving truck. Suicide by truck, also known as…
This victim died after jumping from the third floor of a building landing on his face. Severe disruption…
Russia. This individual committed suicide by intraoral shotgun wound. In the head, neck, and limbs, shotgun exit wounds…
Spain. No info. Suffocation by plastic bag is not common. The finding of a body at the scene…
Cook County. The plastic bag prevents the physiologic breathing by rapid oxygen consumption and mechanical obstruction of the…
This individual committed suicide with a gun. He has massive head trauma and cranial rupture. The head is…
Lehigh Acres, Florida, US, 2002. A 63-year-old woman lived with her 34-year-old son in a residential neighborhood in…
Massive head trauma severely limiting visual identification. No further info. At close range, the shotgun is the most…
Exit gunshot wounds are usually irregular in shape and relatively large – and may be confused with contact…
The figure shows three radiating petals from the entrance wound under the jaw of a victim of suicide…
This individual died after getting hit by a train, no further info. Railroad deaths in the US totaled…
Spain. Open secondary skull fracture at exit of a shotgun blast. No further info. Head injuries from shotguns…
This individual committed suicide with a chainsaw into the right side of the face. No further info. Suicides,…
Complete destruction of the head from a gunshot suicide. No further info. Head injuries from shotguns and high-powered…
Germany. In early September 2011, after a 2-week holiday, a 26-year-old man failed to show up for work…
Occasionally, people shooting themselves in the mouth tilt their heads too far back- ward before firing. This results…
Tentative cuts inflicted with suicidal intent accompanied by deep stab/incised wounds to the soft tissue of the neck.…
This individual committed suicide with broken glass from a picture frame. No further info. Sharp-force injuries are defined…
Texas, USA. These photos illustrate the appearance of a crime scene indoors involving a high velocity weapon. The…
Thailand. A 40-year-old taxi driver broke in to the apartment of his ex-wife and set it on fire,…
This individual was found in a state of advanced decay, he had committed suicide by hanging. No further…
Germany. In March of 2007, a 50-year-old man was fatally injured when his single-engine low wing propeller aircraft…
Suicide by train. Decapitation of the head. No further info. Unfortunately, suicides by train do occur, and they…
USA. A planned complex suicide. Note the gun on the floor near the decedent’s feet. The victim had…
This individual died from a gunshot wound to the head. No further info. The head is the most…
The body of a 39-year-old man without any history of drug abuse or illness was found in a…
Twin brothers committed suicide together with a gunshot wound to the head from self-constructed shooting devices, they were…
Spain. This individual committed suicide by suffocation with a bag and cable ties. After placing the bag over…
Spain. Injuries caused by multiple projectiles (shotgun), with submental entry hole and exit with cranial rupture. No further…
This individual shot himself under the chin from a 12 gauge shotgun and walked 10–15 ft to his…
This individual committed suicide by an intraoral gunshot wound. In the tremendous force imparted by the expulsion of…
Hungary. A man received an email from his 51-year-old brother that he was planning to commit suicide. He…
Virginia, US. A 57-year-old white man with a history of depression and prior suicidal ideation was found lifeless…
US. A 20-year-old white man was found dead by his father in the subject’s bedroom, reclining in a…
Germany. A 71-year-old man was found lying on the road at a village junction (30 km/h zone) with…
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Body in stages of black putrefaction apparent in extensive mottling, the draining of purge fluid,…
This individual committed suicide by fall from height, no further info. A crushing brain injury causes damage to…
This individual died after shooting himself under the chin with a hunting rifle. No further info. Head injuries…
~1990s - A 48-year-old landlord’s wife suffering from chronic depression committed suicide with a band saw by amputation…
A 25-year-old woman had moved in with her 34-year-old boyfriend 3 weeks earlier. The brother of the boyfriend…
In this intraoral shotgun wound, note the tissue tears extending from the sides of the mouth. These tears…
2006 - Belo Jardim, Brazil. The Police was called to a residential unit located in the rural area…
Iceland. A 28-year-old man was reported missing by his mother. He had a medical history of depression, for…
USA. Self-inflicted injuries on a prison inmate who hanged himself after writing "Satan is coming take me home"…
A young man in Brazil was found hanged and decomposed in the forest, he had been missing for…
Spain. This middle-aged man decided to end his life using a shotgun. No further info. Head injuries from…
Spain. This individual committed suicide by hanging, with possible change of mind and attempt to remove the ligature,…
The premise that exit wounds are larger than entrance wounds is a generality only. A man was found…
Poland. The body of a 36-year-old man with multiple torso wounds was found by the police in the…
Suicide by shotgun: entrance wound in the mouth and facial major lesions. It has been clearly established that…
France. A 24-year-old man was found dead by his father lying on the ground in his yard, facedown,…
March 2016 - Belo Horizonte, Brazil. A 37-year-old man was found dead by his father at his residence…
Spain. This individual killed himself with a shotgun. He had just killed his father, who had terminal cancer.…
In December 2007, the body of a man was found on the waterfront of a lake in the…
Slovakia. A newly widowed 79-year-old man was found dead in front of the garage of his family home,…
Spain. Destruction of the facial skeleton due to shotgun blast. No further info. Shotguns differ from rifles and…
New Delhi, India. The incident took place in one of the guest houses in the city. The deceased…
Destruction of most of the head from a contact shotgun wound. There was no further info about this…
Contact wound of the right temple with evisceration of the brain. Note soot at the entrance site. In…
Spain. Middle facial injury with cranial rupture caused by shotgun blast. No further info. Despite the extreme amount…
Germany. A 45-year-old woman committed suicide by hanging herself in her bathroom. The string was attached to the…
In some contact rifle wounds of the head, the entrance may be difficult to locate because of the…
Poland. A grandmother found the corpse of her grandson in an apartment in a block of flats in…
This individual placed a 12-gauge shotgun against his right temple and pulled the trigger. As can be noted,…
Czech Republic. A 39-year-old man was discovered dead in the bathroom of his house, hanging by the neck…
South Korea. Loosely translated from Korean. The deceased is a 48-year-old man who had been suffering from schizophrenia…
South Korea. Most cases of ligature strangulation are generally homicides, and deaths due to suicide or accident are…
This individual has a 12 gauge single-shot shotgun wound to the side of the head. Found supine on…
This individual committed suicide by shooting himself in the head with a hunting rifle, no further info on…
Billings, Montana - This 66-year-old man committed suicide after being told he had cancer. The entrance of the…
November 2017 - Belo Horizonte, Brazil. A 57-year-old female was found dead in a room in the residence…
South Korea. Loosely translated from Korean. The deceased was a 61-year-old unemployed woman who lived alone. The mother…
January 2017 - Pretoria, South Africa. A 76-year-old Caucasian man was admitted to a medico-legal postmortem examination after…
In these intraoral gunshot wounds, note the tissue tears extending from the sides of the mouth. These tears…
Destruction of most of the head from a contact shotgun wound with preservation of the avulsed brain (next…
This man committed suicide by cutting his throat while he was sitting on a bed opposite his own…
Detroit, MI. USA - A 21-year-old man was noted by family members to go into the garage behind…
This suicide shows the devastating result of a shotgun blast in the mouth, which resulted in the top…
The catastrophic effect of an intraoral discharge. The head has completely opened up in a petal like fashion.…
New York, NY. This photo depicts a victim who has been smothered. She committed suicide by placing a…
Seoul, South Korea. The victim, a 46-year-old male dentist, was found dead of ligature strangulation next to a…
This male individual was driving when an LPG cylinder(Liquefied petroleum gas), which was in the front passenger side…
This victim shot himself under the chin with a shotgun creating this classic massive tissue destruction. No further…
This male individual placed an explosive detonator in his mouth. There was extensive destruction of the bone and…
Spain. This middle-aged woman with major depressive disorder committed suicide by train. No further info. Suicide by collision…
A contact shotgun wound of the lower chin. Note the stretch-type lacerations of the right side of the…
There was no info about this case, so here's just some general info: At close range, the shotgun…
This individual has died after a self-inflicted gunshot to the head, no further info. The head is the…
![Fig.1 The body at the scene. Decedent lying on his right side, covered with a blue plastic bag; below the bag also the upper part of 5-L propane/butane gas bottle. [Colorized]](https://i0.wp.com/www.hermantheshocker.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/001-3-1.jpg?resize=600%2C403&ssl=1)
A 30-year-old male was found fully dressed lying on his right side on his sofa in his flat.…
I don't have the backstory from this case but here's some general info. At close range, the shotgun…
Serbia. A 63-year-old mechanic, diagnosed with schizophrenia, was released from a psychiatric clinic to spend a weekend with…
A 28-year-old man was driving a car at a speed of approximately 80 km/h (49.7 mph) on a…
This victim shot himself under the chin with a 7.62 calibre rifle creating massive tissue destruction, no further…
A 77-year-old woman in the Czech Republic committed suicide by train. The face of the woman was reconstructed…
Germany. Translated by Hermantheshocker. The bodies of a 27-year-old woman and a 44-year-old man were found lying entwined…
This woman was decapitated after committing suicide by hanging. The image was in black and white and I…
An extreme example of facial splitting from an intraoral discharge. Conspicuous splitting is noted along the paranasal and…
Germany. This 70-year-old man committed suicide by gunshot to the forehead. He was found kneeling by his bathtub,…
Head injuries from shotguns and high-powered rifles are typically quite devastating, often with extensive soft tissue destruction, skull…
This individual committed intraoral suicide with a shotgun. The shotgun wound resulted in extreme facial splitting from the…
Germany. A decomposed body was found hanging from a tree in a forest. The body belonged to a…
Nassau County, New York - Suicidal stab wound into a female victim’s chest with the knife left in…
India. A young man aged about 26-year got married a couple of years back, he used to maintain…
In mid-November 2010 a hunter walking on the Po river bank near Parma (Emilia-Romagna Region, in the north-east…
Mishawaka, Indiana, US. In the fall of 2011, the badly injured body of a 65-year-old male was found…
Blast injury. The suicide victim detonated one kilogram of TNT on his chest. No further info. Explosive-caused injuries…
Germany. Complex suicide of a 31-year-old man following the attempted killing of his 29-year-old partner. Atypical hanging in…
Krönlein shot indicates a prolapse of an intact brain hemisphere or, more rarely, of both brain hemispheres in…
Germany. Self-inflicted gunshot to the forehead with a shotgun. The scalp is torn open in several long stretches;…
Germany. A 39-year-old metalworker was found dead in his workroom. He had manipulated a model cannon with jackscrews…
This individual committed suicide by fastening cable ties around his neck, leading to suffocation. Each cable tie was…
Flash suppressors generally consist of a cylinder, having a number of longitudinal slits along its length that is…
Wausau, Wisconsin, USA. This individual shot himself in the head with an upward trajectory. The man was determined…
Intensive blue color of mouth and lips in a case of suicidal intoxication with solvents. No further info…
This photograph illustrates the devastating effect of a high-powered weapon placed into the mouth of a suicide victim.…
The woman in this photograph committed suicide with a box cutter by severing the peroneal artery, which is…
Cuyahoga County, Ohio, USA. This individual committed suicide by intraoral gunshot wound to the head, no further info.…
This individual killed himself with a gunshot under the chin creating a massive tissue destruction. Facial disruption can…
Spain. This is a case of gender-based violence and murder, with the perpetrator subsequently killing themselves (i.e., murder-suicide)…
Stuart, Florida, USA. Occasionally, self-inflicted gunshots involve elaborate apparatus. This individual took the time and patience to construct…
Massive explosive burstlike exit wound to the head from a .30-06 hunting rifle suicide. Note outward petal like…
This individual has a contact gunshot wound on the forehead. Note the split by tears radiating from a…
Spain. The body of a 22-year-old man was found inside a metal workshop lying on the bench of…
1998 - Miami-Dade County, Florida, US. This young man has a self-inflicted intraoral shotgun wound with birdshot ammunition.…
Notice the linear tears extending laterally from the corners of this individuals mouth after the tremendous force imparted…
Crushing head injuries are characterized by extensive soft tissue laceration, closed and open comminuted fractures of cranial and…
This woman committed suicide with a gun under the chin, her finger was on the trigger when found,…
Suicide with a homemade 12-gauge shotgun cartridge filled with screws, nuts, and other metal objects
The image shows a wound caused by a flare gun that fired a homemade 12-gauge shotgun cartridge filled…
This individual committed suicide with a gun, there was no further info but it looks like he might…
This individual committed suicide with a sawed-off IZH-18 shotgun. The entrance wound is on the forehead and has…
This male individual jumped from the 28th floor of an apartment block and fell approximately 84 m (275…
This 52-year-old man sustained an intermediate range rifle wound to the left side of his head from a…
City of Lacey, Washington, USA. Police were called to a hotel after employees discovered a deceased man locked…
Hangings in jail using telephone cords have been described in the literature. Note the telephone cord looped around…
