[Homicides with postmortal emasculation of the victim]

Among criminal offences with mutilation of the genitals the number of cases with isolated removal of the testicles is small. This paper describes two homicides with postmortal emasculation of the victim from the autopsy material of the Berlin Institute of Legal Medicine (Humboldt University). In both of them no further mutilation had been committed. Yet the perpetrator's motivation was different in the two cases. In one case the cut-off testicles had been concealed in the victim's mouth, an act never described anywhere before. Obviously the offender wanted to mislead the police in their investigations. In the second case the motivation was of a homosexual nature and was thus comparable to previously described cases.