Triple hanging in filicide-suicide: An unusual case report

Behera, Chittaranjan; Rautji, Ravi; Sikary, Asit Kumar; Kumar, Rajesh; Vidua, Raghvendra Kumar; Millo, Tabin; Gupta, Sudhir Kumar

doi:10.1177/0025802414524951

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“…7 Many reported cases involves two individuals whereas occasional reports have reported filicide-suicide involving three persons. 1 We found one similar case from India, where the mother killed both her children by hanging them one by one from a ceiling fan in the same room and later committed suicide by hanging in another room. 1 Single ligature material, with each end of cloth was used for hanging by a couple during suicidal pact was reported in literature which is similar to our study where single ligature is used by three victims.…”

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Filicide-Suicide: A Case Report on Triple Hanging

Parajuli

2021

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Dyadic deaths involve deaths that occur when two or more persons die together or one after another in the same incident. Filicide-suicide is a variant of homicide-suicide which includes the killing of children by a parent. We bring here a rare case of a father with his two children found hanging in a shed with a use of single ligature material, nylon rope. The children were of age three and five years. It happened when wife of the man had run away with another man leaving them behind for 15 days.

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“…Filicide-suicide is a special category of homicide-suicide event where the victim(s) are children and the perpetrator are one of the parents or both. 1 Filicide is a complicated and multifactorial crime. Because of its complex nature, it is difficult to establish traits that consistently apply to its perpetrators and victims.…”

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Filicide-Suicide: A Case Report on Triple Hanging

Parajuli

2021

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“…Suicide note plays an important role in differentiating deaths in suicide pact and homicide-suicide pact. In a homicidesuicide pact, accused kills the victim and then takes his or her own life which may be very similar in presentation with the suicide pact if the method chosen to be one as described by Behera et al (18) in their case. The presence of suicide note reveals the manner and motive for such pact death.…”

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Jumping Together: A Fatal Suicide Pact

Sikary

Swain

Dhaka

et al. 2016

Journal of Forensic Sciences

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In suicide pact, two or more victims mutually agree and execute to end their lives together by predetermined method, preferably by hanging, drowning, gunshot, or poisoning. The victims are usually spouses, lovers, or friends, and the reasons behind such steps are various. In this reported suicide pact, husband-wife duo jumped from the terrace of a 12-meter-high building with their wrist bound to each other. Although they jumped together, the injury patterns were completely different. The man landed on head sustaining mainly craniocerebral injuries, and the wife landed on feet sustaining long bone injuries. They left a suicide note pointing out sudden demise of their only child as the reason for the suicide, and it was signed by both of them. Jumping from a height in suicide pact has not been reported in the scientific literature yet.

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“…4 Another distinct type of homicide-suicide is when a parent kills his/ her children (filicide-suicide). [5][6][7] The spectrum includes non-intentional or intentional killing, and deaths can be from maltreatment such as abandonment, neglect, or exposure or a fatal assault by, for example, suffocation, strangulation and stabbing. The term 'maternal filicide' or 'paternal filicide' is used when the perpetrator is the mother or the father of the victim, respectively.…”

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Filicide-suicide: An unusual variant of dyadic death

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Dyadic suicides may be committed simultaneously or one after another by two or more people who may or may not have made a prior pact. The perpetrator is usually male and their victims female, and generally their intimate partners, with children less commonly involved. Another distinct type of homicide-suicide is the killing of children by a parent (filicide-suicide). The terms 'maternal filicide' or 'paternal filicide' are used respectively when the perpetrator is the mother or the father of the victim. We report a rare case of maternal filicide, where the mother drowned her three children and then herself in the same water tank. The case highlights the extreme stress put on a mother of girls in a patriarchal society where there is an overriding expectation and wish for sons. The resulting pressure on this mother for her 'failure' caused her to take her own and her children's lives.

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Triple hanging in filicide-suicide: An unusual case report

Cited by 11 publications

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Filicide-Suicide: A Case Report on Triple Hanging

Filicide-Suicide: A Case Report on Triple Hanging

Jumping Together: A Fatal Suicide Pact

Filicide-suicide: An unusual variant of dyadic death

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