Older photographs show the process of a forensic autopsy performed on a woman. She was found with a leather belt used as a ligature around her neck. Its horizontal course is forensically much more suggestive of homicide. In rare cases, suicide cannot be ruled out either. For these reasons, the autopsy must be supplemented by a search for defensive injuries and an examination of the location where she was found. The findings of this particular autopsy were never published anywhere.
The photographs circulate online with the description that they depict Junko Furuta, a young victim of a brutal murder in Japan. However, this claim was ruled out through facial analysis. The pictures actually come from old forensic archives. The woman’s true identity was never made public.
