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28.12.2016 | Images in Forensics

Female autoerotic asphyxial death – features and issues

verfasst von: Roger W. Byard

Erschienen in: Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology | Ausgabe 1/2017

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A 44-year-old woman was found by her partner and a friend hanging from a stair well at her home address. Her partner, who had been looking at a social media site in a downstairs room while she was upstairs, had gone to the front door when the friend had arrived. It was then that they noticed the body suspended from side railings at the top of the stairs by a Chinese silk dressing robe sash. …
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Metadaten
Titel
Female autoerotic asphyxial death – features and issues
verfasst von
Roger W. Byard
Publikationsdatum
28.12.2016
Verlag
Springer US
Erschienen in
Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology / Ausgabe 1/2017
Print ISSN: 1547-769X
Elektronische ISSN: 1556-2891
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12024-016-9832-7

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