title: [Corpse disposal by embedding it in concrete--a rare form of preserving a body over a period of 5 years and 10 months].
abstract: Final disposal of a homicide victim in concrete is rare. Often missing persons are reported to the police, but the right of adults to determine their whereabouts can make it very difficult to locate them. A 40-year-old woman had been missing for 5 years and 10 months. She was found by the police in the cellar of the family's house, packed in airtight plastic film and embedded in concrete. The husband admitted to have killed her by manual strangulation after an argument during which she fell on the head. His statements were confirmed by the findings obtained from the very well preserved body. The autopsy results were generally consistent with manual strangulation. The literature does not contain many case reports on this rare method of disposing of a body. In the reported case, the postmortem period was remarkably long and the corpse was in a good state of preservation.
authors.forename: Elke
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Doberentz
authors.forename: Kirsten
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Wöllner
authors.forename: Burkhard
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Madea
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002102:Cadaver; D003252:Construction Materials; D004615:Embalming / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D049429:Forensic Pathology / Q000379:methods*; D006708:Homicide; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies