Homicide followed by freezing and burning: usefulness of measuring SCHAD (short-chain 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA
L Fanton1, H Yappo-Ette, C Vianey-Saban
1Institut Universitaire de Médecine légale de Lyon, Université Claude-Bernard Lyon 1, 12 Avenue Rockefeller, 69008 Lyon, France. laurent.fanton@adm.univ-lyon1.fr
Journal of Clinical Forensic Medicine
|October 24, 2006
Abstract:
An observation of homicide in which the victim was frozen, then burned, was reported. This confirmed the usefulness of measuring SCHAD (short-chain 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase) activity in the freezing of a human corpse despite unusual circumstances.


