title: Triple hanging in filicide-suicide: an unusual case report.
abstract: Filicide-suicide is a special category of homicide-suicide event where the victim(s) are children and the perpetrator is one of the parents or both. It is not extensively documented or adequately defined in literature. In developed countries, shooting is a common method of homicide and suicide. Uses of knives, blunt objects, strangulation, poisoning and drowning are other methods frequently employed by the perpetrator. Homicide by hanging in filicide-suicide is rarely reported in forensic literature. We present a rare case of filicide-suicide, where the mother killed both her children by hanging them one by one from a ceiling fan in the same room and later committed suicide by hanging in another room.
authors.affiliation: All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India drchitta75@rediffmail.com.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Behera
authors.affiliation: Armed Forces Medical College AFMC, India.
authors.forename: Ravi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rautji
authors.affiliation: All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India.
authors.forename: Asit K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Sikary
authors.affiliation: All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India.
authors.forename: Rajesh
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.affiliation: All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India.
authors.forename: Raghvendra K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Vidua
authors.affiliation: All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India.
authors.forename: Tabin
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Millo
authors.affiliation: All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India.
authors.forename: S K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Gupta
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001237:Asphyxia / Q000473:pathology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006708:Homicide; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D019838:Neck Injuries / Q000473:pathology*; D013405:Suicide
keywords: depression; hanging; homicide-suicide; triple filicide