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Thank you very much for your reply, Jonethan.

I asked the question, because in the country of my origin a guy had been - not too long time ago - convicted of double murder of his wife and daughter.

No deadly weapon was found, and there was only circumstantial evidence against the defendant.

Crucially, the pathologists, who did the autopsies of the deceased, said that the both deceased died of heart failure caused by an electrical injury.

But meanwhile, the same pathologists were unable to tell, whether the electrical injuries were administered with only one electrode or two of them.

This remarkable inability of those pathologists seems to be strange to me, given they expressed certainty about the cause of both deaths.

I am quite suspicious, whether their verdict of electrical injury as a cause of death was valid, reliable and trustworthy, or whether the pathologists resorted to this verdict only because they were under a strong pressure from the state attorneys and investigators to identify any cause of death whatsoever, but in fact, they found nothing unambiguous and conclusive during the autopsies.

So in some corrupt institutional environment, where forensic pathologists can't afford to admit they have found no evident cause of death, they may resort to the insufficiently based verdict of electrical injury as a cause of death. Am I right?

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If the electrical injury is severe enough to result in ventricular fibrillation or asystole, then I would expect there to be other signs on autopsy to identify the cause as an electrical injury, such as burning or singeing of the contact wound, and frequently, an exit wound. If caused by lightning injury, there may be a particular pattern on the skin, called Lichtenburg figures, that can be identified.

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