ISSN: 0022-1198
CODEN: JFSCA
Page Count: 3

Suicide Far from Home: The Concept of Transjurisdictional Suicide
Hanzlick, RL
Medical examiner, Fulton County, GA

Ross, WK
Resident, Emory School of Medicine and Affiliates, GA

(Received 11 November 1985; accepted 21 March 1986)

Abstract

A review of a series of eleven persons who committed suicide in a city long distances from home is presented, and the concept of transjurisdictional suicide is introduced. Those eleven cases suggest a high likelihood that the victim will be found in a hotel or motel bed by a hotel/motel employee within a day of check-in; the victim will be a white male who drove to the city and who lived in a hometown closely associated with an urban center which is within a day's drive and on an interstate route connecting the hometown to the city selected; the victim will be older than twenty-one years, married or never married but not divorced or widowed, and will not have been born in the state where death occurred; a suicide message will be found, and a specific reason for selecting a given city will not be apparent.

Keywords:
criminalistics, suicide

Paper ID: JFS12341J
DOI: 10.1520/JFS12341J
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