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A suicide disguised as a homicide: return to Thor Bridge
J A Prahlow1, S Long, J J Barnard
1Southwestern Institute of Forensic Sciences, Department of Pathology, University of Texas-Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas 75235, USA.
The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology
|July 14, 1998
Abstract:
Suicides staged as homicides are uncommon. We present a case of a self-inflicted gunshot wound of the chest disguised by the victim as a homicide, using a method described by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in his Sherlock Holmes story, "The Problem of Thor Bridge."