[hermantheshocker]

A 51-year-old man was found dead in his apartment after he had not been seen alive for several days. The entrance door was locked, and the blinds were closed. The man was found lying on his bed in a supine position with a blanket covering the body up to the neck. After the removal of the blanket, the police found two electric cables running across the abdomen. The cables were attached to each other and knotted to the bed frame. Neither of these cables was connected to an electrical outlet. A pair of handcuffs, one cuff covered with plush, was affixed to the right wrist and to the cables.


Fig.1 Anterior aspect of the body after removal of the clothes and the plastic sheet which originally had covered the abdomen (now positioned between trunk and left forearm).


Fig.2 Two compresses soaked with brownish fluid have remained in place on the right abdominal wall.

The tying primarily suggested an autoerotic accident. Once undressed, a large black plastic sheet was discovered on the abdomen, the edges of which were fixed to the skin with adhesive strips. The front sides of both thighs also showed several plasters (12 in total) of a dark brown color. Below the sheet on the abdominal skin, there were soaked compresses containing dark brown particles with a sweet tobacco smell. The same material was applied to the inner surface of the plasters on the thighs. A glass containing similar brownish material was found on a table next to the body.

An autopsy was performed four days after the discovery of the body. The external examination yielded resolved rigor mortis and minor signs of putrefaction. There were no injuries visible. Various samples (cardiac serum, peripheral serum, urine, gastric contents and a plaster removed from a thigh) were subjected to toxicological examination.


Fig.3 Anterior aspect of the body after removal of the clothes and the plastic sheet which originally had covered the abdomen (now positioned between trunk and left forearm).


Fig.4 Handcuffs and cables at right wrist. Taken before removal of the clothes.

The autopsy did not reveal any pathology that could explain death. The inner organs showed only slight signs of putrefaction. The lungs were heavy and congested with blood. The bladder contained 350 ml of urine. In the stomach, there were about 300 ml of black to dark brown liquid, mixed with small particles reminding of fine-cut tobacco and some small corny fragments. Moderate general arteriosclerosis was observed. No signs of trauma were noticeable.

According to the autopsy findings and toxicological analyses, death was caused by a mixed intoxication with nicotine and diphenhydramine in the additional presence of a low concentration of tetrazepam. In conformity with the police investigations, the fatality was categorized as suicide.

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[imbok]

Damn, that took some real planning! We just never quite know what is going on in the minds of other people. Crazy.

[HeyJealousy]

Where did this happen, if you don't mind me asking?

[Brainplague]

Wow. You just never know what goes on behind closed doors.

I wonder why he decided to commit suicide in such a complicated way.

[K53]

The mind can have fatal thoughts

[Watcher===]

Utterly bizarre and totally compelling. A doctor friend of mine can hopefully tell me how that chemical cocktail works.

[df2112]

This seriously doesn’t strike me as a suicide.

[nudibranches646]

So smoking doesn’t kill?

[William May]

Another suicide that required SO MUCH WORK, and SO MUCH PLANNING, that by the time I had gotten to that point, my head would hurt, and I would have given up, and started just watching "Gilligan's Island".
Maybe I would do it some other time.
But not likely.
If the work involved in killing myself is enough to make me want to kill myself, I am probably too lazy to bother with it.

[lovelylucinda]

I am always utterly shocked at the imaginative and mind blowing ways people die/commit suicide.. Another great post hermantheshocker