• Nikola Bungardt, Sylvester Ogbuihi, Thomas Gross, and Christian Rittner.
• Institut für Rechtsmedizin, Universität Mainz.
• Arch Kriminol. 2003 Jan 1;211(1-2):33-41.

AbstractIn the medicolegal literature reports on homicides followed by suicide, especially in elderly people, are rare. In the present case, the victim, a 79-year-old woman, showed a rather unusual injury pattern: 3 gunshots to the head (with only 2 entrance wounds and 3 intracranial projectiles) and 2 stabs from a knife. The tools used for inflicting the stab wounds (a hunting knife and a double-edged dagger) were left in the victim's body after the offense. The 89-year-old husband hanged himself with an aerial cable after killing his wife. The police investigations and the autopsy findings suggested a combined homicide-suicide. The motive for the offense could be a so-called delusion of poverty associated with symptoms of depression.

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