The authors present a case of a middle age man, who was found dead in his house.
The examination of the crime scene and the forensic autopsy revealed several external
injuries caused by a side-arm and a blunt instrument with different modalities. Autopsy
revealed several external injuries due to a side-arm. The main wounds were superficial,
mainly grouped in two different sites of the body: abdominal region and left leg. The
fatal wound has caught up the heart through the thorax. A blunt injury was also found on
the head. All the lesions had haemorrhagic infiltration; histology confirmed the vitality
of all injuries. The interpretation of the medico-legal findings led to the hypothesis that
the superficial wounds were inflicted to cause pain, while the only one, affecting the
heart, was the final one. This hypothesis was confirmed by the reconstruction of the
events in Court, where the suspects were sentenced for life imprisonment for inflicting
lesions in order to gain information from the victim, and for murdering.