Note
"September 2000."
Submitted by: Ontario Provincial Police Technical Identification Services Unit, Barrie, Ontario.
Executive summary in English and in French.
Résumé
"The purpose of the study was to examine the physical evidence consistent with a self-inflicted hanging act, such as a suicide or auto-erotic death and provide a comparison through the examination of homicidal hangings. The goal of the study is to improve, through education, the investigative techniques at death scenes involving hangings and, ultimately, to be able to distinguish homicidal hanging scenes from suicidal scenes using physical evidence and a thorough investigation. This study produced a large number of observations and measurements and these, combined with results of a survey of hanging cases and a literature review, led to the creation of a data form providing criteria for investigators in the area of suspicious hanging deaths."