[Homicide or suicide? A contribution to the topic of insufficient investigation].

Two deaths by stab wounds are reported, which were first mistaken for suicide and discovered only on autopsy. The hypothesis "suicide", which was based only on the statements made by the women ascertained as the offenders later, was not questioned by the doctors doing the postmortem examination and was accepted without further investigation by the police officers first handling the cases. Moreover, in the second case the signs of the repeated impact of blunt force were overlooked in addition.