Cunha Eugénia, Pinheiro João, Pinto-Ribeiro Isabel, Vieira Duarte Nuno
Instituto Nacional de Medicina Legal, Largo da Sé-Nova, 3000 Coimbra, Portugal.
Int J Legal Med. 2007 Nov;121(6):483-8. doi: 10.1007/s00414-007-0195-1. Epub 2007 Sep 14.
We report a multiple homicide in Angola involving six Portuguese citizens. Immediately after the crime, four bodies were retrieved from the homicide site. Forensic autopsies were allegedly performed by local doctors and three bodies were transferred to Portugal, where they were buried with no extra expertise, presumably identified only by the examinations carried out in Angola. The two remaining bodies, presumably from sub-adults, were only discovered 1 year later. At that time, some bone samples of these two corpses were sent to Portugal. A multidisciplinary team of the National Institute of Legal Medicine (NILM) in Portugal, including forensic anthropologist and pathologists, and forensic geneticist, found out that the bodies were previously misidentified. In fact, the anthropological and genetic examinations on the remains of the two persons showed that they did not belong to a child and an adolescent but instead to two adult victims, at least one of them was supposed to be buried in Portugal since 1 year. The verification of this misunderstanding led to a series of exhumations, of the three victims previously buried in Portugal. In all, the identities were reconstructed and the cause of death could be established in four of them. A multiplicity of severe traumatic cranial injuries were detected, which were, undoubtedly due to a violent death.
我们报道一起发生在安哥拉的涉及六名葡萄牙公民的多起谋杀案。案发后不久，在凶案现场找到了四具尸体。据称当地医生进行了法医尸检，三具尸体被运往葡萄牙，在那里未经额外专业鉴定就被埋葬了，大概只是根据在安哥拉所做的检查来确认身份。另外两具尸体，推测是未成年死者的，一年后才被发现。当时，这两具尸体的一些骨头样本被送往葡萄牙。葡萄牙国家法医学研究所（NILM）的一个多学科团队，包括法医人类学家、病理学家和法医遗传学家，发现这些尸体之前被误认了。事实上，对这两具尸体残骸的人类学和遗传学检查表明，他们并非儿童和青少年，而是两名成年受害者，其中至少有一人本应在一年前就被埋葬在葡萄牙。对这一误解的核实导致对之前埋葬在葡萄牙的三名受害者进行了一系列挖掘。总共重新确定了身份，并确定了其中四人的死因。检测到多处严重的颅骨创伤，毫无疑问这是暴力致死的结果。
