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Sharp force injuries result from contact with sharp-edged or pointed objects. This chapter reviews the three major types of sharp force injury: stab wounds, incised wounds, and chop wounds, and provides further information regarding various miscellaneous topics and issues, including internal examination, mechanism of injury, trace evidence, clothing examination, defensive wounds, and hesitation marks, among others.
When Phinehas … saw this, he left the assembly, took a spear in his hand and followed the Israelite into the tent. He drove the spear through both of them – through the Israelite and into the woman’s body. Numbers 25:7–8
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Prahlow, J. (2010). Sharp Force Injury Deaths. In: Forensic Pathology for Police, Death Investigators, Attorneys, and Forensic Scientists. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-404-9_14
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