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[Postmortem changes after 50 years immersion (1939 reconstructed suicide)]
W Rabl1, E Ambach, W Tributsch
1Institut für Gerichtliche Medizin, Universität Innsbruck.
Abstract:
In September 1989 an old motor car was accidentally discovered in a lake, 50 meters below the water surface. The automobile contained the torso of an adult woman with extensive adipocere formation and the skeletonized body of a man. Forensic and criminalistic investigations lead to the identification of the deceased persons. In the year 1939 the persons together had committed suicide. The corpses were immersed for fifty years.