Parthasarathi
Ministry of National Security, Jamaica
Title: Homicidal Asphyxia: An approach to interpret Forensic Evidence
Biography
Biography: Parthasarathi
Abstract
A 74 year old man was found dead in a closet of clothes in his house. His body was tied by a car seat belt by multiple knots continued from the front of the neck through wrists, abdomen and ankles. His mouth and nostrils were covered by a plastic bag tied at the back of the neck. At autopsy examination, an oblique ligature mark was found at the front of the neck. Intense violaceous congestion was found at the face, neck shoulders and upper chest. Some abrasion marks on the chest wall and few intra muscular hemorrhagic spots were found in the intercostal muscles. Crime scene visit and judicious interpretation of the available autopsy findings revealed that the victim was killed by combined effect of ligature strangulation, traumatic asphyxia and smothering by plastic bag