Distinguishing Murder from Suicide: Prevalence and General Investigative Features

Death from propofol: accident, suicide, or murder?

A 24-yr-old woman was found dead in her home from apparent propofol "toxicity." Her blood level of propofol was 4.3 microg/mL. She had no history of drug abuse and no evidence of such behavior at autopsy. The medical examiner and police investigators felt that she died from probable homicide. Attention was focused on a male registered nurse acquaintance, who had acquired propofol and other drug...

Murder-Suicide in Australia

Homicide is a relatively infrequent event in Australia, and homicides followed by the suicide of the perpetrator occur about twenty times each year. Analyses of these cases, however, can be instructive. This Trends and Issues paper shows that most murder-suicides in Australia occur in the context of intimate and/or family relationships, and are more likely to involve firearms than are other cat...

Men, Masculinities, and Murder-Suicide

Murder-suicide (M-S) is a complex phenomenon that can involve a multifaceted set of interrelated biological and social factors. M-S is also sexed and gendered in that the perpetrators are most often male and their underpinning motives and actions link to masculinities in an array of diverse ways. With the overarching goal to describe connections between men, masculinities, and M-S, 296 newspape...

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Self-mutilation and suicide attempt: distinguishing features in prisoners.

Nonlethal forms of self-injury are often discussed together with suicide attempts as though they belonged on a continuum of self-harm. Both types of self-injury are common in prisons, which have a predominantly male population; however, most studies of nonlethal self-injury have been done with female subjects. This exploratory study tested the hypothesis that prisoners who injured themselves wi...