Homicidal hanging in a dyadic death.
Homicide by hanging is rare. In this case report, a young man stabbed his wife, hanged his son, and then hanged himself. He was assumed to be mentally ill, consistent with some other studies of family murder-suicide.
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Department of Pathology, University Hospital, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
D000328:Adult; D001237:Asphyxia / Q000473:pathology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006708:Homicide; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012559:Schizophrenia; D013405:Suicide; D014951:Wounds, Stab / Q000473:pathology