Homicide by Strangulation With Postmortem Dismemberment of the Victim: Looking for Injuring Tool.

The goal of this presentation is to provide insight into various aspects of this type of postmortem injury due to desmemberment, including new diagnostic means, which may help the forensic community with the identification of injuring tool. This presentation will impact the forensic science community by increasing awreness of the importance of completing extensive examinations and tests to establish the type of the lesions and their vitality, the cause of death, the effect of drugs on the victim, the characteristics of the possible injuring tool. Many morphological and technical details concerning the victim, the used instruments for killing, and dismembering are presented.