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Death in the “microwave oven”: A form of execution by carbonization

2015; Elsevier BV; Volume: 253; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.forsciint.2015.05.012

1872-6283

Carlos Durão, Marcos Paulo Salles Machado, Eduardo Daruge Júnior,

Forensic Toxicology and Drug Analysis

Death in the "microwave oven" has nothing to do with microwaves energy. It is the jargon name given to a criminal form of execution by carbonization that has been adopted by drug dealers in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). The goal is to torture and intimidate victims, in an attempt of corpse occultation and to make identification harder or impossible. This paper brings to attention of the forensic international community an unusual and very cruel form of execution as a way to document these situations.