Colombian necktie

A Colombian necktie (Spanish: corbata colombiana) is a brutal method of murder wherein the victim's throat would be slashed horizontally, with a knife or other sharp object, and his or her tongue would be pulled out through the open wound; this is not actually possible because the tongue is entirely in the mouth and is thus entirely above the neck. The myth may gain credibility because when one looks into a human mouth, the tongue seems to disappear into the inside of the throat. Anatomy textbooks, including the famous Gray's Anatomy, make clear, however, that the tongue is a roundish muscle anchored in the bottom of the mouth.

Nevertheless, widespread belief in the phenomenon has had social effects as indicated in the remainder of this article.

The Colombian necktie is sometimes credited to drug kingpin Pablo Escobar. It was supposedly intended as a method of psychological warfare, meant to scare and intimidate.[1][2]

O. J. Simpson murder case

During the trial of O. J. Simpson in 1994, an alternate murderer theory claimed hitmen murdered Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. The theory supposes that the hitmen were hired by drug dealers to whom Faye Resnick owed money.[3][4]

Evidence was presented that a Colombian necktie, a variation where the executed are killed by a horizontal slash at the throat and the tongue is drawn through the wound, is often employed by Colombian drug dealers. Judge Ito barred this admission of testimony.

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  1. Fichtl, Eric (August 2005). "Contested Country: An Examination of Current Propaganda Techniques in the Colombian Civil War". Colombia Journal. Archived from the original on 2008-03-12. Retrieved 2009-07-15.
  2. Bowden, Mark (2001). "Chapter 1". Killing Pablo. Atlantic Monthly Press. ISBN 0-87113-783-6. Retrieved 2009-07-15.
  3. "Testimony On Resnick Drugs Barred". Chicago Tribune. July 13, 1995.
  4. Robin Clark, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER (March 9, 1995). "Simpson Defense Presses Drug Link A Detective Faced A Barrage Of Questions. The Judge Ruled The Defense Can See Some Fuhrman Files". Philadelphia Inquirer.
  5. I Killed the Prom Queen
  6. Grinnage, Jamal. "4 Alarm Blaze". Album: First Family 4 Life.
  7. le Carré, John (1993). The Night Manager (1 ed.). London: Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN 0-679-42513-6.
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