title: [Homicide by strangulation with a lasso sling].
abstract: A 50-year-old physically handicapped man was found dead on his wheelchair in a short passage on the ground floor of a high-rise housing development. The lattice doors at the both ends of the passage were closed and the wheelchair with the body was found at the door to an adjoining indoor parking place for bicycles. A noose of a vinyl plastic cord was found wound around the neck; the other end of the cord was tied through the lattice door to a handrail on the wall of the parking place. The wheelchair was stopped sideways; its chair back was in contact with a doorpost. The body which was slipped from the seat of the wheelchair was incompletely suspended by the noose. The cause of death primarily was diagnosed as hanging. The police suspected murder and arrested a 21-year-old male assailant. According to his confession, the assailant pushed the wheelchair through the lattice door in the passage, stopped it at the door and braked it. Immediately thereafter he returned to the parking place and locked the lattice door behind him. After having made a kind of lasso using a cord taken off from a bicycle which has been sitting there, he reached out his hands through the lattice door and lassoed the man on the wheelchair from behind. Finally, he tied another end of the lasso to the handrail. It was considered that the body of the victim was slipped down in the stage of convulsion and incompletely suspended by the noose.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung für Rechtsmedizin, Medizinischen Fakultät, Universität Kyoto.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yamamoto
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Matsumoto
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hayase
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yamamoto
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Matsubayashi
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ojima
mesh_terms: D001237:Asphyxia / Q000473:pathology*; D001344:Autopsy / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D002423:Cause of Death; D006233:Persons with Disabilities; D006708:Homicide / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009333:Neck / Q000473:pathology; D019838:Neck Injuries; D014910:Wheelchairs
vernacular_title: Fremdtötung durch Strangulation mit einer lassoartigen Schlinge.