Autopsy: Man found dead at consulate repeatedly stabbed himself

Yahoo/Newsday ^ | 020106 | Tom Hays

[CAWats]

NEW YORK -- An Indonesian man found dead in the blood-spattered basement of his country's consulate on the Upper East Side took his own life by repeatedly stabbing himself with various knives in a gruesome fashion, authorities said Monday.

The man, identified by officials in Indonesia as Bambang Welianto, 36, of Jakarta, was found Sunday with a kitchen knife in his chest and his left wrist almost severed. Several more knives, including a meat cleaver, were found around him inside the four-story Beaux-Arts mansion on East 68th Street, off Fifth Avenue.

A spokeswoman for the medical examiner's office, Ellen Borakove, said the death was ruled a suicide. An autopsy found that the victim died from multiple self-inflicted stab, slice and chop wounds on his upper body and limbs, she said.

[caver]

Did he stab himself in the back?

[Doogle]

Bambang Welianto

and his cousin Badabing...it's a wonder with a name like that he didn't go out with a "boom"

Doogle

[wvobiwan]

It was tragic, he then backed a car over himself 4 times.

[woofie]

Im so glad he didnt use a gun ..someone could get hurt

[zerosix]

Yep, had he had a gun, he might also have shot himself in the head, three times.

[Wolfie]

Uh-huh. I'm guessing their CSI types graduated at the bottom of the class.

[an amused spectator]

...repeatedly stabbing himself with various knives in a gruesome fashion...

And then there's always THAT ONE GUY who repeatedly stabs himself with various knives in a normal, everyday fashion...

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I didn't know they had Arkancides in New York!

[Joe 6-pack]

"...Arkancides..."

The indonesian connection is curious. I'll bet there's a Riady somewhere in this story.

[ishabibble]

I hope he wasn't smoking in that basement...that's a hanging offense in NYC!

[Velveeta]

Don't miss this one...ping.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I'll bet there's a Riady somewhere in this story.

James Riadi and Bhuddagate. I haven't thought of that for awhile.

[DeaconRed]

I am glad he didn't fall on his straight razor, like the man at the Do Drop Inn in did.

[Waverunner]

Later he planned to steal chains and concrete blocks, and swim to New Jersey with them.

[LaineyDee]

Oooooooooookie dokie then!

[sheik yerbouty]

Her Heinous, Eva Rodham Braun, imported them..

[ARCADIA]

was found Sunday with a kitchen knife in his chest and his left wrist almost severed. Several more knives, including a meat cleaver, were found around him inside the four-story Beaux-Arts mansion on East 68th Street, off Fifth Avenue.

How do you almost sever your wrist, yet remain intact long enough to switch knives and drive a kitchen knife into your chest? I would think you would be out cold long before you got there.

Where was Ted Kennedy while all of this was going on?

[Doogle]

hmmmmm...tew boolette wounds?...severalle punctures...a slashed wrist...a hose attached tew the exhaust of an audi?... a bom found in a sutcase?...it's quite obvious, he didn't get his invite to attend the SOTU event with Cindy

[Mr. Brightside]

"If you find my body chopped up and stuffed into the refrigerator, don't believe the suicide note."