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Published in: Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology 1/2017

01-03-2017 | Images in Forensics

Female autoerotic asphyxial death – features and issues

Author: Roger W. Byard

Published in: Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology | Issue 1/2017

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A 44-year-old woman was found by her partner and a friend hanging from a stair well at her home address. Her partner, who had been looking at a social media site in a downstairs room while she was upstairs, had gone to the front door when the friend had arrived. It was then that they noticed the body suspended from side railings at the top of the stairs by a Chinese silk dressing robe sash. …
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Metadata
Title
Female autoerotic asphyxial death – features and issues
Author
Roger W. Byard
Publication date
01-03-2017
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology / Issue 1/2017
Print ISSN: 1547-769X
Electronic ISSN: 1556-2891
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12024-016-9832-7

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