Fehler bei der notärztlichen Todesfeststellung?

In Hamburg, after death has been ascertained by an emergency physician, the police are regularly informed and the deceased is transferred to the Institute of Legal Medicine for a complete external post-mortem examination. In the case described, no closer examination of the deceased was carried out during the determination of death, and a knife stuck in the chest was missed. The results of the police investigation in conjunction with the forensic autopsy led to the conclusion that the death was a suicide.