A suicide disguised as a homicide: return to Thor Bridge.
Suicides staged as homicides are uncommon. We present a case of a self-inflicted gunshot wound of the chest disguised by the victim as a homicide, using a method described by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in his Sherlock Holmes story, "The Problem of Thor Bridge."
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Southwestern Institute of Forensic Sciences, Department of Pathology, University of Texas-Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas 75235, USA.
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D002423:Cause of Death; D008192:Deception; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005554:Forensic Medicine; D006708:Homicide; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013405:Suicide; D014948:Wounds, Gunshot / Q000401:mortality* / Q000473:pathology