Homicide
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This photo depicts a standard “execution type” drug hit. The victim’s hands were secured behind his back. A…
USA. A cluster of incised wounds across the face and neck. Incised wounds can also be referred to…
This individual has fatal chop wounds on the side of the head from an axe. Chop wounds are…
Lacerations inflicted by a claw hammer. Multiple lacerations with split and abraded margins are typical for bludgeoning but…
On May 5, 1998, at approximately 9:17 a.m., Wichita, Kansas, officers were dispatched to a small, one-bedroom, duplex…
The injuries sustained by victim who was beaten about the head and face with a rock. Homicidal blunt…
An example of how blood can obscure the true nature of an injury. In the first picture of…
USA. This victim was beaten and tortured before he was shot in the head, stuffed in a 55-gal…
Russia. Aleksey Vasilyevich Sukletin was a Soviet serial killer, rapist and cannibal. Between 1979 and 1985 along with accomplices Madina…
Laceration of the scalp from a 30 cm long heavy torch (insert). The skin over the shoulders is…
Russia. A man was found dead in the back of a truck. The man had gunshot wound on…
Russia. This man was killed with a broken bottle and has deep cuts and lacerations on his neck.…
Homicidal lacerations of the scalp penetrating the skull. Although some of the injuries resemble incised wounds, their margins…
This individual has homicidal chop wounds. Chop wounds can be considered a combination of sharp and blunt force…
This man has cut throat and abrasions on his neck. No further info. Cut throat is not the…
On September 27, 2000, 23-year-old Theresa Andrews, who was 9 months pregnant, disappeared without a trace. Her husband…
Close discharge of a 12-bore shotgun to the chest. There is a large hole, partly due to disruption…
Russia. This man was killed by his drinking buddy with a leg from a chair. When drunk people…
This individual has shotgun gunshot wounds on his face from the shotgun pellets. Injuries from shotgun pellets vary…
Russia. A man was found dead in a field. The man had wounds on his neck and a…
Multiple homicidal lacerations of the scalp. The unusual shape is difficult to interpret, but they were caused by…
Tangential shotgun wound of face. The edge of the dispersal cone of pellets and gas has ploughed through…
Disintegration of the head of a young female terrorist in the Malayan emergency from a single bullet entering…
This person was killed with a shot in the head, placed in a garbage compactor where the body…
This man has fatal neck wounds from an axe. Chopping wounds are caused by heavy, sharp-edged instruments like…
USA. The police were summoned to an apartment when friends of the deceased recounted that she had failed…
Russia. This individual has multiple cut wounds and slash wounds. Slash wounds occur as a result of tangential…
This individual was shot in the head one time by a police swat team member. The officer was…
Man killed by his own brother with throat cut and stabbing. One can notice that this was an…
Russia. A woman was murdered with a scythe in her home. Homicide involving a scythe presents distinct forensic…
Multiple homicidal lacerations of the forehead. The perpetrator finalized his act by squeezing toothpaste on the left eye.…
Russia. This man was beaten up and his throat cut. No further info. Cut throats can be homicidal,…
This individual bled to death after a cut throat injury. Cut-throat deaths involve deep incisions or lacerations across…
USA. The victim’s body was discovered after a neighbor became suspicious about the manner in which the young…
Colombia. This decomposing individual has a high-velocity gunshot wound. The entrance wound is under his right ear and…
Spain. The throat of this elderly woman was cut in a homicide. A homicidal throat cut refers to…
Khabarovsk, Russia - May 11 2019. A domestic quarrel occurred between a man and a woman. The man…
Turkey. On October 4, 2024, Istanbul was shaken by a horrific incident where 19-year-old Semih Çelik brutally murdered…
Staff at the Travel Lodge Motor Inn in New York City, New York, made a call to the…
Spain. A woman who died as a result of stab wounds in a homicide. The injuries were multiple…
Colombia. This individual was fatally struck multiple times in the face with a metal pipe, the lesions clearly…
A laceration is a type of wound caused by the tearing or splitting of skin, which can occur…
Russia. This man was nearly decapitated. It is unknown if this was a homicide or an accident. Accidental…
Chop wounds of the scalp and skull from a hatchet. Chop injury represents a unique category of sharp…
Mogok, Myanmar - 2021. Two protesters were shot and killed by regime troops during a demonstration on Saturday…
Germany. In a case of extended suicide, a man killed his wife with a contact gunshot to the…
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Firefighters had responded to a house fire and in the process of extinguishing…
Russia. This woman has fatal stab-cut and incised wounds on the neck from her roommate. Stab-cut and incised…
In the late 1980s, young women were being stalked along Route 40 in Delaware by a man who…
This woman died from a gunshot wound to her face. Severe facial destruction is shown. Lacerations on the…
The photograph demonstrates a classic sweeping incised wound created by an individual standing behind the decedent. It should…
The police were called to a possible suicide. The only witness to the event stated that the deceased…
Russia. A mentally ill woman killed her mentally ill mother in their shared apartment. The daughter used a…
September, 2020 - Jacareí, Brazil. An elderly man identified as Benedito Moreira was arrested on Tuesday, September 22,…
Pontiac, Michigan. In a police interview, a man admitted to having gay tendencies at the age of seven.…
When attempting to identify the remains of an unknown decomposed individual, it may be necessary to deflesh the…
Patterned lacerations from the claw end of a hammer. Claw hammers have the specific characteristic of having two…
Multiple stab wounds into the back consistent with piquerism in a case of sexual homicide. Piquerism (from the…
Russia - 2018. A 21-year-old Russian woman has been detained after confessing to dismembering the body of her…
Germany - February 20, 2008. 32-year-old Matthias Schoormann, AKA Troll, had played guitar in a black metal band…
Australia. This middle aged adult male has blunt- and sharp-force trauma injuries to the head and neck after…
On May 2, 2009, at approximately 1:30 in the morning, attorneys Barbara Scharton and Daniel Lyons, were murdered…
Spain. Homicide. Gagging is a form of asphyxia which results from forcing a gag such as rolled up…
Multiple irregularly distributed deep stab wounds to the head and back: homicide by a perpetrator suffering from paranoid…
A 41-year-old woman, from Lalitpur, Kathmandu, Nepal, who was decapitated by her husband in their bedroom. The victim…
An armed paramilitary group of about 30 men invaded the La Ceiba estate in sector Marimonda I, in…
Explosive-induced trauma of the upper posterior part of the trunk with decapitation and gaping lacerations of the superior…
A woman was found prone on the floor next to her bed with her nightgown displaced upward, exposing…
Russia. A mentally ill man killed his mentally ill mother. According to the son, the mother was possessed…
2012. The New York Police Department (NYPD) received a call informing them of a possible homicide. The informant…
Spain. Homicide carried out by two attackers at the same time; one with a normal knife, and another…
Germany. A young, initially unidentified female was found dead in public on a snowy winter day. She was…
Turkey. A 54-year-old male was found murdered in prison by his cellmate. Examination of the scene and the…
New York. This individual was murdered by his male partner. Note the increased level of violence and “overkill”-type…
Mexico. A 42-year-old man was murdered and left out in the field. Animal scavenging had occurred to his…
USA. A woman’s roommate found her beaten to death on a mattress located on the floor of their…
When deaths are violent, suspicious, sudden, and unexpected, a Medical Examiner performs a post-mortem examination. Medical examiners specialize…
USA. A 35-year-old male was found dead in the basement room where he slept, which also served as…
Rockland County, NY, US. In March 1985 some young boys found a charred and mutilated corpse in a…
In March 2012 a charred corpse was found near the Shkotovo-Artem highway in Russia. The corpse was discovered…
Distant range stellate entrance wound on the forehead. Distant gunshot wounds of the head may have a stellate…
A woman was found prone on the floor just inside the front door of her house. A puddle…
Italy. A 73-year-old woman was found dead in her own home by the police. The police intervened because…
Fatal lacerations from hammer on the head. No further info. Claw hammers have the specific characteristic of having…
Lehigh Acres, Florida, US, 2002. A 63-year-old woman lived with her 34-year-old son in a residential neighborhood in…
Italy. A 53-year-old female psychiatrist was fatally stabbed in her office in a Mental Health Center by a…
The Rettendon murders (also known as the Range Rover murders or Essex boys murders) occurred on 6 December…
Germany. This individual was murdered and the body then dumped in a river. A stab wound was noted…
Spain. The trauma to the scalp was inflicted with a blunt object (glass ashtray). The wounds could be…
Homicidal cut throat. No further info. Cut throats can be homicidal, suicidal or accidental. Homicidal cut-throats are a…
Facial injuries sustained when a letter bomb exploded as it was being opened. No further info. It is…
This individual has been stabbed multiple times in the chest and abdomen, the body has been washed at…
A war crimes investigation in Serbia and Republika Srpska of a beheaded Serb by a Bosnian Al-Qaeda terrorist…
Bronx, New York City. This is the victim of a rape–homicide that occurred in an unoccupied apartment within…
A 23-year-old police officer was killed while on duty. The victim was attacked by multiple assailants, and one…
France. A 59-year-old woman was assaulted by her son with a Japanese sword (katana) with a total length…
San Rafael del Yuma, Dominican Republic - 2019. Janel Aquiles Cedano de León, a 35 year old teacher…
Russia. This individual has multiple cut wounds and slash wounds on his face. No further info. Slash wounds…
Nassau County, New York. The body of a homicide victim recovered from the waters with the hands still…
These remains were found in a ditch along a gravel road, at the edge of a National Forest.…
This woman was murdered and dismembered, and her face peeled off. No further info. Fig.1 The woman had…
A rare case of homicidal double cut throat – on front and back. There is also a deep…
A 25-year-old woman had moved in with her 34-year-old boyfriend 3 weeks earlier. The brother of the boyfriend…
Colombia - November 2003. Six police officers died in a road explosion by guerrilla group FARC. According to…
This middle-aged male individual was located in a burnt-out car with a knife protruding from his neck. This…
February 2020 - San Vicente, Venezuela. The body of a woman was found inside a refrigerator in a…
The little info I have on this one is that she was fatally shot by her son's friend…
Nassau County, New York. This badly burned body had been dumped at an outside location where animals fed…
Between 1989 and 1996 three women were sexually assaulted, strangled, and killed in Yonkers, New York, by an…
Xiangzhou, China - 2014. The body of a woman was found in a sack by a sanitation worker…
Mexico City, Mexico - February 9, 2020, a woman was brutally murdered by her partner who skinned and…
Pasadena, Texas, 1975. The nude body of 22-year-old Deborah Elizabeth Hester was found strangled in her apartment. She…
Australia - This middle-aged male individual was assaulted in his home. When the individual was located his ankles…
October 1998 - Bellingham, Washington, US. 20-year-old Keri Lynn was visiting relatives in Bellingham, Washington, and she had…
Australia. This male individual died from sharp-force injuries to the chest and left wrist in the setting of…
This woman was shot in the face at close range with a bullet from a 30.06 rifle in…
New York - Stab wounds into the victim’s back made with a large bladed knife. No further info…
Chicago, Illinois. The victim of a lust murder, who had been stabbed multiple times in the chest with…
Dumped body (Illinois State Police case Highway 64). Animal scavenging on face and left arm. This victim was…
Pontiac, Michigan, US. On Tuesday, July 11, 1995, the nude and battered body of Margaret Midkiff, a 43-year-old,…
Indian River County, Florida, US. On July 26, 1983, David Alan Gore and his cousin, Fred Waterfield, were…
Homewood, Alabama, US. On March 9, 1990, Homewood Police responded to a report of a murder from the…
Los Angeles. A murder case showing sex-related mutilation. No further info about this case. A lust murder is…
Township of Van Buren, Michigan. Police received an anonymous call reporting a body of a female in an…
Italy. An 83-year-old man, killed by his son, was found dead in the dining room of his apartment,…
A body was dumped in a wooded area near Los Angeles. By the time it was discovered about…
On February 21, 1997, at approximately 4:09 p.m., the Pottawatomie County, Kansas, Sheriff’s Department took a missing person’s…
I colorized the original black and white images. Poland, 1999. A 26-year-old man killed his father by multiple…
This individual has stippling around the gunshot entrance wounds of the face, intermediate range, no further info. Stippling…
A 39-year-old prostitute stabbed and beaten. Nipples cut off and “skinned” in pubic and perineal region. No further…
Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Police were summoned to a home of a woman who reported that there had been…
Italy. When a 38-year-old policeman did not arrive at work and could not be reached by telephone, two…
In this particular case, the badly charred and burned remains of the victim of a kidnapping, rape, and…
This middle-aged individual was involved in an altercation with another male relating to the manufacture of amphetamines. Circumstantial…
This deceased individual has multiple stab wounds on the back from the same knife, showing differing shapes and…
The decomposing body of a woman was discovered in a bathroom in Indonesia, no further info. Putrefaction begins…
Catastrophic disruption of the head after a distant range discharge. Homicide with a 30-06 Springfield rifle. Note petal…
The partially clad body of a 22-year-old female, who had been beaten and sexually mutilated, was discovered in…
Contact gunshot wound to the eye. Note the lacerations of the eyelid and eye globe with soot deposition…
A series of murders occurred in Washington State in 1990. The murders began in Bellevue, Washington, in June…
An elderly male was found dead, slightly decomposed, lying on a couch with a pair of scissors protruding…
This victim’s throat was slashed. No further info about this case. Slash wounds occur as a result of…
East Lake, Ohio. Police who had responded to an emergency call discovered a woman named Susan murdered in…
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, US. On November 3 1998, a man and a woman encountered a gunman on the front…
Grand Prairie, Texas - The victim’s throat was slashed by her assailant during a sexual assault and murder.…
Case scenario April 2019 - Mönchengladbach, Germany. Two men had met on a bus and after a conversation…
This woman was shot it the neck, note the defense wounds on her left hand from trying to…
Homicidal cut throat, showing single slash with no tentative cuts. Clean-cut edges with no sign of repetitive strokes,…
Sacramento, California, USA. On December 29, 1977. A 51-year-old man, who had exited his house to retrieve groceries…
This individual was murdered and stabbed with various kitchen utensils, no further info about this case. The general…
1994 - Rheine, Germany. A Chinese hand grenade type 86 P (weight approx. 290 g, approx. 1600 steel…
2011 - Portage, Indiana, USA. A 19-year-old woman named Amanda A.B. was reported missing by her father on…
Multiple lacerations to the back of the head in a homicide with a primary attack from behind. The…
In Germany, a 65-year-old woman told police that she killed her 71-year-old husband the previous evening and then…
Contact-range discharge to the left side of the neck (12 G shotgun, homicide). (left image) Exit site on…
April 1995 - East Wenatchee, WA, USA. A young woman discovered the bodies of her mother and sister.…
This photograph illustrates the devastating effect of a high-powered weapon placed into the mouth of a suicide victim.…
I colored and upscaled the original low quality black and white image, quality is rather poor. Chopping wounds…
Spain. The photos are of a victim of homicide with an axe. This is a case of homicide…
King County, WA, USA. This woman was found dead at her residence. She has been stabbed multiple times…
On Halloween night, 1979, at approximately 10:30 p.m. Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris abducted their final victim, 16-year-old…
Spain. This is a case of gender-based violence and murder, with the perpetrator subsequently killing themselves (i.e., murder-suicide)…
There was no information with this image, I assume it's a homicide rather than a suicide, but I…
This individual was found in a state of decomposition inside plastic bags buried in soil. No further info…
In cases of trauma, it may be necessary to dissect the soft tissue of the face that lies…
Incised wounds of the neck can be accidental, homicidal or suicidal. Accidental wounds are extremely rare, usually seen…
This woman was strangled and died, note the scleral hemorrhages and petechiae, larger scleral hemorrhages can be seen…
This body was discovered in a suitcase in Los Angeles. No further info. If a body has been…
On March 13, 1999, in San Luis Obispo, California, Aundria Crawford was reported missing by her mother. Aundria’s…
Identification of decomposed remains requires techniques such as forensic odontology, forensic anthropology, and/or DNA typing. This victim was…
Police responded to a single-family residence. Upon arrival, they were met at the front door by the victim’s…
