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Searching for a serial killer on a hospital ward.
Forensic Sci Int
December 2024
Tampere University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Arvo building, Arvo Ylpon katu 34, Tampere, Finland.
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- The case of Lucy Letby illustrates the difficulty of identifying serial killers in healthcare settings, emphasizing the need for improved statistical methods in legal investigations.
- A nurse was convicted for injecting an infant with insulin, and an analysis of 29 suspicious deaths in a geriatric unit revealed a significant correlation between her night shifts and the incidents.
- While statistical methods can enhance investigative targeting, they must complement thorough investigations to accurately determine the causes of death in suspicious cases.
[Death certificate: Easy, fast and without fear of being wrong].
Semergen
November 2024
Residente de Medicina Legal en el Instituto de Medicina Legal de Aragón (IMLA), Zaragoza, España.
Certifying a death is an act of paramount importance for family physicians, who play a key role in this process. This article presents a comprehensive guide based on a review of laws, codes of ethics and interviews with forensic experts. From the definition of the certificate to the responsibilities of the physician, frequently asked questions that arise in daily practice are addressed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Impact of Turkey's Withdrawal From the Istanbul Convention on Suspicious Female Deaths and Femicides.
Omega (Westport)
September 2024
Edirne Provincial Health Directorate, Edirne, Turkey.
In recent years, suspicious deaths, often portrayed as "falls from a height," have been increasingly associated with femicides in Turkey. This phenomenon coincided with the official withdrawal process from the "Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence" (Istanbul Convention). Our study aims to reveal the impact of Turkey's withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention on femicides and the yet officially unrecognized "suspicious female deaths.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFApplicability of the Madymo Pedestrian Model for forensic fall analysis.
Forensic Sci Int
August 2024
Division of Digital and Biometric Traces, Netherlands Forensic Institute, Laan van Ypenburg 6, The Hague 2497 GB, the Netherlands.
Forensic reconstruction and scenario evaluation are crucial in investigations of suspicious deaths related to falls from a height. In such cases, distinguishing between accidental falls, being pushed or jumping is an important but difficult task, since objective methods to do so are currently lacking. This paper explores the possibility of repurposing a passive rigid body model of a human from commercially available crash simulation software for forensic reconstruction and scenario evaluation of humans dropping from heights.
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