KMID : 0357820220460020046
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Korean Journal of Legal Medicine 2022 Volume.46 No. 2 p.46 ~ p.50
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Three Cases of Double Hanging in Korea from 2008 to 2018
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Kim Dae-Yoil
Kim Jong-Won Kim Mi Jung Mi-Jin Kim Jong-Chan Lee Sang-Han
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Abstract
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Hanging is the most common form of suicide, but the use of a single ligature in a suicide pact is very rare. The authors identified three cases of double hanging through the National Police Agency¡¯s Scientific Crime Analysis System over 11 years in Korea, from 2008 to 2018. Of the six deaths, all but one were suicides; one was a victim of murder (suicide after murder). A couple was found hanging by a single ligature over a beam, wherein a man hanged himself using the weight of the woman he had strangled to death. A mother and her daughter used a chest of drawers as a fulcrum off which they hanged themselves, with one on each side of the drawers, using a single rope. Two lovers were found sitting at each end of the rope, using a single ligature, with a tree branch as an abutment. Each of these cases is discussed and reported along with a brief literature review. In a double hanging case, investigators should be cautious in determining the manner of death by distinguishing between a suicide pact from a homicide-suicide.
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KEYWORD
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Hanging, Double hanging, Homicide-Suicide, Suicide
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