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Gangrene following a gunshot laceration of the femoral artery

Dry gangrene is caused by acute or chronic loss of blood flow to the distal part of a limb, and is most often seen these days in those with poorly-controlled diabetes and in life-long smokers. However, it can also occur if the limb suddenly loses circulation, such as in a thrombosis (blood clot), or a lacerated artery, as is seen here.

Without no circulation, tissues begin to die immediately, and spreads outwards until the point where bloodflow is adequate to keep tissue alive (in this case, probably around the point of laceration). Assuming no bacterial infection took hold above the gangrenous area, and the healthy tissue sealed itself off successfully, the end result without surgery would be the drying up and falling off of the necrotic tissue, in a process known as autoamputation.

However, the number of confounding factors in possible autoamputation scenarios is vast, and surgical intervention is called for whenever possible.

An American Text-Book of Surgery. Edited by J. William White and William W. Keen, 1894.

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Lieutenant Commander Donald D. Sheppard aims a flaming arrow at a bamboo hut concealing a fortified Viet Cong bunker on the banks of the Bassac River, Vietnam. December 8, 1967.

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U.S. army soldier wearing the crown of the Holy Roman Empire in a cave in Siegel, Germany. April 3rd, 1945.

Reddit user: u/Auleee

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A severed arm believed to be from the September 1862 Battle of Antietam.

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Body of frozen Soviet soldier propped up by Finnish fighters to intimidate Soviet troops, 1939 Finnish defenders sometimes took fallen, frozen Russian soldiers and posed them upright as psychological warfare.

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Wax anatomical head with exposed brain

The layers of this wax anatomical model of a human head has been peeled back to reveal the underlying structure of the brain and the meninges (the protective covering of the brain). The model may have been used to teach medical students the anatomy of the brain or have been made for medical exhibitions open to the general public.

Credit: Science Museum, London

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22 July (2018)

Directed by Paul Greengrass

Cinematography by Pål Ulvik Rokseth

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1888

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The victim of a mad butcher, a sex and torture victim reveals her aggressor’s handiwork, ca. 1938 © Cliff Wassermann, photo courtesy of Gregory Paul Williams, BL Press LLC / TASCHEN

[morbidology]

Dr. Gilbert Stanley Bogle from Sydney, Australia, was an acclaimed scientist, even earning a Rhodes Scholar. He was married with four children and worked as a physicist at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. However, Gilbert compartmentalised his life. On one hand, he was a loving father and businessman but on the other, he was having numerous affairs behind his wife’s back with several married women. One of Gilbert’s endeavours was Mrs. Margaret Olive Chandler, one of his colleagues.

On New Years Eve of 1963, Ken Nash, who also worked at the CSIRO, threw a party, inviting numerous wealthy locals. In attendance was Margaret and her husband, Geoffrey, as well as Gilbert. Halfway through the party, Geoffrey left to attend another party, leaving Gilbert to drive Margaret home that night. As it so turned out, Geoffrey was also having an affair behind his wife’s back. Margaret and Gilbert departed the party together at about 4AM. They drove to a well-known lovers lane, Lane Cove River, and what happened next is shrouded in mystery and conspiracy. Later on in the morning, two teenagers stumbled across Gilbert’s body. He was as laying on his stomach and was partially undressed. His trousers had been placed neatly on his legs and a piece of carpet was covering his nude body. Nearby, Margaret’s body was found. She too was in a state of undress and her nudity had been covered with pieces of cardboard. At the crime scene, investigators found vomit and excrement from both victims. 

The main theory was that the couple had been poisoned. However, due to the New Year’s Day public holiday, by the time their bodies had an internal examination, no traces of poison could be found. Many questioned who had tactfully covered their nude bodies and why? Involving a high-society party combined with liaisons between the rich and unidentified poisons and persons, the case gripped the nation. In the documentary “Who Killed Dr Bogle and Mrs Chandler,” they put forward the theory that their deaths were caused by accidental hydrogen sulphide poisoning which could have emanated from the river down the lovers lane. However, this still doesn’t fully explain the covering of the bodies. Clearly somebody else had been at the death scene at some point… Investigators claimed that the bodies could have been covered by somebody who stumbled across the scene and wanted to protect their modesty. Nevertheless, this so-called third person was never identified. If this person wasn’t involved in their deaths then why didn’t they contact the police when the came across the two bodies?

The opinion on the case is very much divided. Was this the perfect murder or was it a tragedy involving two people in the wrong place at the wrong time? It seems likely that we will never know for sure, leaving this one of the most inexplicable unsolved deaths of the century. 

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Vietnam, 1967

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Serial Killer Ronald Dominique

The murders

Ronald Dominique was born in early January 1964. Dominique early realized that he was gay and was often teased by his classmates because of this. His family was not accepting of his sexuality, and the only one in his family Dominique got along with was his older sister. In his late teens, Dominique started frequenting gay bars. He hoped to find males interested in having sex with him, but no one seemed to like him. Dominique came up with a solution to this problem; forcefully having sex with them.

Ronald Dominique often lured prostitutes to his car in the promise of payment for sex. Instead, Dominique raped them. He also decided to kill the men he had raped to avoid prison, but he unknowingly left his DNA on multiple crime scenes. His first known victim was killed in 1997, and his last victim was killed in October of 2006. Dominique dumped the bodies outside, and the local police started to connect the murders because of the similar modus operandi. All of the victims were male, they had been raped, most of them were prostitutes and all of them had been strangled to death and dumped outside. However, they were unable to locate the person responsible for the murders. After 9 long years, a man stepped into the police station and told a horrifying tale. The man told the police that he had been approached by a middle-aged man who had lured him to his trailer. The victim had been tied up but was released by the man in the trailer. He led the police to the trailer, which belonged to Ronald Dominique. The police decided to take a DNA sample from Dominique, which connected him to the rapes and murders committed over almost a decade. Dominique was promptly arrested.

Trial and aftermath

Ronald Dominique confessed to 23 murders as part of a plea deal to avoid the death penalty. In September 2008, Dominique was sentenced to eight life sentences. He is currently (September 2020) incarcerated at the Louisiana State Penitentiary.

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real life film noir...{ 📸: crime scene photo from lapd archives.}

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)

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JAZZMIN FRY:

On the 23rd of February, Kyle Johns (19) headed out for a party with a friend in Fortitude Valley. As he and his friend walked down ChinaTown Mall they were approached by a drunk Jazzmin Fry (21).

The incident, which was caught on camera, shows Fry approaching Johns as he tries to escape her. Johns tells ’news.com.au’ that the woman was “looking for a fight”. Fry begins to scream at the men as they walk away, yelling “want my fucking heel through your eyeball?” before stabbing Johns in the head with her stiletto, leaving him bloodied before shouting “not so funny now, is it you cunt?”. Recalling the incident, Johns claims he felt as if he was going to die and states he was covered in bruises. Johns was taken to the emergency room where he had to have his scalp stapled back together. In May, 2019, Fry pleaded guilty to assault and a magistrate implemented a $250 fine with no criminal conviction. Johns is relieved to alive but both him and his mother feel let down by the justice system. Fry told Nine News:

“It was a drunken act. It was my 21st birthday and it’s not me. I don’t know why I did it. I wasn’t in the right mind frame”.