[Offensive cadaver dismemberment by an ice pick].

The paper reports on a case of offensive corpse dismemberment by an unusual tool. A man with an acute exacerbation of a psychosis decapitated a 96-year-old woman by an ice-axe.

Sudden natural death at the wheel--a particular problem of the elderly?

Thirty-nine autopsy cases of sudden natural death at the wheel were analysed with special respect to the questions if this is a peculiar problem of the elderly and if there are particular pathological features in the elderly. The ages ranged from 33 through 83 years and the median age was 56.4 years.

[Experiences of forensic medicine with death in foreign travel].

In cases of death which occur in a foreign country, the official post mortem diagnosis does often not correspond with our findings at obduction. Therefore an obduction should be performed in dubious cases at arrival in the native country. Even in a state of embalming and/or putrefaction the findings at obduction are still reliable.