Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to K Teige.
Dactyloscopic fingerprints of longer time in water laying corpses can be taken from the surface and rear face of the epidermis and from the corium with a simple method. Used are in household occurring or easily available substances. For best results in identification it is important to get all fingerprints without exchanging them.
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Taking electronographs from fingerprints is a technique with expense and circumstantiality. Moreover this technique yields bad results when finger-prints were taken from the skin of dead persons.
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Two suicides with home-made guns firing conventional ammunition are reported. Three different classes of homemade guns can be distinguished. Special characteristics of the interior and exterior ballistics of the home-made guns caused unusual muzzle imprints, intensive soot deposits at the entrance wounds and on the hands, intensive CO-effects, burns and in one case a skin laceration of the hand holding the weapon. The bullets showed a reduced penetration depth, characteristic firing marks were missing.
A man committed suicide by a contact shot to the left chest from a nail-gun. The nail caused a slit-like entrance wound and a penetrating heart injury. The front side of the nailgun led to an outer "muzzle imprint", the muzzle and the nail to an inner "muzzle imprint". Wound ballistics of nails are discussed.
The described case underlines all difficulties which arise in identification procedure of totally burned human remains. The main problem is the fragility of bone and tooth fragments and the radiological screening of structures of high individual specificity. After the fire in an old beekeeping a totally burned corpse has been found. The fragments of the bones and jaws were fixed with sodium silicate immediately. The viscero-cranium was reconstructed and x-rayed in an modified orthopantomography-x-ray-equipment. The comparison of pre- and postmortem radiographs made a positive identification possible.