[hermantheshocker]

Malaysia. Investigators responded to an emergency call alerting them of a person acting aggressively in his apartment. On arrival, they found a scantily clad adult male lying dead in a pool of blood in the living room area of his apartment unit. There were suspicious injuries on his body. The apartment was in a mess, with presence of blood-stained objects, a broken sliding glass door, scattered glass pieces with a blood-stained knife and a fork next to the body. The initial findings were highly suspicious that a possible struggle had occurred between the deceased and the assailant.


Fig.1 The deceased was almost naked and lay in coalesced, continuous, blood smears that appeared to be wiped by his movements on the floor.


Fig.2 Heavy dumbbells were used to break the sliding glass door and other mirrors in the unit.

To make matters easy for investigators, the apartment unit had a closed-circuit television (CCTV) installed at the entrance, and a video recording of those who entered the unit was available. An hour after the deceased was seen entering the unit in an unsteady gait, his roommate had entered the unit and left about half an hour later in a rush. No other persons had access to the unit beside the two of them prior to the arrival of the police.


Fig.3 A blood-stained kitchen knife was found next to the body.


Fig.4 Deep incised wounds on the back with marginal bruises were consistent with glass cuts. Inset: broken glass pieces were found on the floor beneath the body.

The roommate was apprehended as a suspect, but what had baffled the investigators was that it was the roommate who made the distress call to the police. The roommate informed the police upon questioning that the deceased had been acting ‘bizarre’ and had tried to attack him with a knife before he fled the scene to alert authorities. However, not believing his testimony, the police apprehended him pending the result of the autopsy to confirm if an act of commission had occurred. The roommate was not found to have any injuries on him.

A total of 69 injuries were found on the body upon external examination. These injuries were mostly abrasions, bruises, and lacerations, which were attributed to blunt trauma. However, three of them appeared to be incised wounds with faint marginal bruises indicating both sharp and blunt components. These wounds were found at the back of the body and were determined to have been caused by glass cuts. Groups of linear abrasions found on the accessible regions of the body were consistent with non-fatal, injuries sustained from a blunted knife or fork found next to the body. Knuckle bruises were consistent with history of self-inflicted punching against blunt surfaces. Though there was blunt and sharp trauma, the pattern of injuries did not fit a homicidal attack. Most of the injuries were found on the back and peripheral limbs.


Fig.5 Numerous superficial injuries were found on the body, consistent with blunt and sharp trauma.


Fig.6 Multiple groups of shallow abrasions were found on the right shoulder.

Despite the vast number of external injuries, all of them were superficially inflicted. There were no injuries to the internal organs or vital structures, and no extensive subcutaneous bruises were seen. There was no damage to major vessels of the peripheral limbs. The organs were not pale to suggest exsanguination from superficial wounds.

Toxicology revealed ethyl alcohol, methamphetamine and 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) along with its metabolites in the stomach content, blood, urine, and bile, which indicated that he was under the influence of these substances around the time of his death. Individually, these substances were not of fatal levels.


Fig.7 Bruises on both knuckles indicated punching against several blunt objects.


Fig.8 There were no subcutaneous injuries of visceral organs. None of the external wounds were fatal in nature.

Reconstruction of events was done with his roommate, who was now an important witness and is no longer a suspect. According to him, the deceased was sweating and bleeding profusely from the scalp and leg. He had broken a sliding glass door with heavy dumbbells, injured himself with a knife, and tried to wipe the blood on the floor with a cloth. He grunted continuously whilst lying supine on glass pieces on the floor. The deceased became more irrational and acted bizarrely. His roommate immediately left the scene to call the police when he was threatened by the deceased with a knife. He denied any history of attempts to restrain the deceased.

Blood spatter analysis was consistent with blood being wiped by the movement of the body on the floor. Blood spatters were venous drops with no arterial or swing splatter. DNA analysis traced all the scene blood to the deceased, and no foreign DNA was found. After reviewing all evidence and circumstances, the cause of death was determined to be Excited Delirium Syndrome consistent with abuse of psychostimulants, methamphetamine and MDMA.

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[REVZZYBAN]

At the scene, no blood to the front of his body (large coverage), so he smeared all that blood from glass cuts with his leg & back? Baffling. Superficial cuts?

[obelix]

and he liked to wear nail polish...

[LittleNightmare]

What a bloodbath...guy was psychotic

[depraved1]

trippy

[HYPRTCKR]

~ The guy took some drugs, lost control, & had a battle with his psychotic conscience. He Lost!
~ Toxicology revealed ethyl alcohol, methamphetamine and 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) in his system.

[K53]

Rare case where the victims looks better in the morgue

[zeb247]

Most blood I’ve ever seen.

[marcos_69]

I'll be honest...I don't really like his interior decorating skills.

[LuckiiDevil21]

Well here's one for Crime Scene cleaners!