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Abstract
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.Entities:
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Year: 2001 PMID: 11563751 DOI: 10.1097/00000433-200109000-00027
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Am J Forensic Med Pathol ISSN: 0195-7910 Impact factor: 0.921