Use As Murder Weapon
There seem to be at least two cases in which a bolt pistol is used as a murder weapon. One is recounted in a paper published in The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology. The murderer was a 46-year-old man who killed his wife and also had a history of alcohol abuse and aggressive behavior. The other case is the murder of Mary Griffiths. She had requested police help to deal with harassment from an acquaintance turned stalker. The police delayed dealing with the problem and the stalker killed Mary Griffiths, with the bolt pistol, in front of her child.
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