• Sybille Lüderwald, Elisabeth Mützel, Matthias Graw, Wolfgang Eisenmenger, and Oliver Peschel.
• Institut für Rechtsmedizin der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
• Arch Kriminol. 2008 Jan 1; 221 (1-2): 36-42.

AbstractA 55-year-old man was found dead on the bed lying on his side in a pool of blood with a bullet entrance hole in the nape. Behind his body, a semi-automatic rifle Remington Nylon, cal. .22 LR, was detected. As the gunshot entrance site was rather unusual for suicide, a forensic autopsy was performed, which showed a contact shot to the nape with the bullet path running upward to the left frontal area. The man had been treated with citalopram for delusional depression, so that a suicidal act seemed plausible, and the autopsy and criminalistic findings were also compatible with this assumption. A remarkable fact of the present case is that a long firearm had been used. Reports on suicidal shots to the nape are comparatively rare in the medicolegal literature and usually refer to pistols or revolvers.

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