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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Autopsy reenactment - A useful technique in the evaluation of adhesive tape asphyxia |
Author: | Herbst, J. Stanley, W. Byard, R.W. |
Citation: | Journal of Forensic Sciences, 2014; 59(3):841-843 |
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell |
Issue Date: | 2014 |
ISSN: | 0022-1198 1556-4029 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Jonathon Herbst, Wayne Stanley, and Roger W. Byard |
Abstract: | A 19-year-old woman was found dead with her face and head wrapped in plastic adhesive tape in a cupboard beside an opened helium cylinder. Despite the alleged presence of a suicide message on a social networking website, the unusual circumstances raised the possibility at the time of autopsy of either accidental death from sexual asphyxia or homicide. A carefully monitored reenactment demonstrated, however, that the type of commercial adhesive tape that had been used did not cause complete airway obstruction and that it was possible to wrap a considerable length of tape around the head and neck with the breath held. All of the features at autopsy were, therefore, compatible with self-infliction. Asphyxial death was attributed to the combined effects of smothering from tape and anoxia from helium, an extremely rare combination in young females. |
Keywords: | Forensic science; asphyxia; adhesive tape; plastic; helium; autoerotic death; homicide |
Rights: | © 2014 American Academy of Forensic Sciences |
DOI: | 10.1111/1556-4029.12378 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1556-4029.12378 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 3 Medical Sciences publications |
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