Victim's scalp on the killer's head. An unusual case of criminal postmortem mutilation.
A case of unusual postmortem mutilation of a victim's body is presented. After killing his father, the son decapitated his body and dissected the scalp free, forming a mask of the father's head and neck. The young man wore the scalp-mask over his own head to imitate the father. The motive of the murder was revenge, and the postmortem mutilation was the realization of the perpetrator's fantasies, symbolically representing a penalty for the reprehensible past life of his father.
Kunz
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Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland.
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D000328:Adult; D001344:Autopsy; D005554:Forensic Medicine; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D019838:Neck Injuries / Q000473:pathology; D012535:Scalp / Q000601:surgery; D012557:Schizoid Personality Disorder; D013898:Thoracic Injuries / Q000473:pathology; D014950:Wounds, Penetrating / Q000473:pathology*