title: [Postmortem changes after 50 years immersion (1939 reconstructed suicide)].
abstract: In September 1989 an old motor car was accidentally discovered in a lake, 50 meters below the water surface. The automobile contained the torso of an adult woman with extensive adipocere formation and the skeletonized body of a man. Forensic and criminalistic investigations lead to the identification of the deceased persons. In the year 1939 the persons together had committed suicide. The corpses were immersed for fifty years.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Gerichtliche Medizin, Universität Innsbruck.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Rabl
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ambach
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Tributsch
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002423:Cause of Death; D004332:Drowning / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007101:Immersion / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008297:Male; D011180:Postmortem Changes; D013405:Suicide / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*
vernacular_title: Leichenveränderungen nach 50 Jahren Wasserzeit (Erweiterter Suizid im Jahre 1939).