Dr. Kendall Crowns

Welcome to Mayhem in the Morning with your host, Dr. Kendall Crowns.

Yeah, I often when I'm doing the autopsies, I think about what the individual who may have done this is doing right at that present time.

Often they're already in custody, but sometimes they're not.

And you kind of always have to wonder, did you walk past them on your way into work that day?

Did you run into them at the grocery store or something of that nature?

You never know, but you are right, Nancy.

People really love to boast about the things they do and the evil that they commit on other individuals.

Yes, that can happen occasionally in murders where the individual is dead.

found to still be alive after the initial assault that they thought they killed him with.

Often we see this in strangulations.

And what happens then is they will use whatever means they have available to make sure they end that person's life so that person can't wake up and testify against them at a later date.

They may beat their head into a rock.

If they have knives available, they may stab them multiple times.

I've even seen them try to cut heads off.

And then they'll also, in this case, shoot them in the head with a gun.

So what they described is the skull had no flesh on it and it had an entrance wound in the back right side of the head and an exit wound on the left side of the facial bones or of the cheek.

So it showed that she was kind of executed by a single gunshot wound to the back of the head.

It does not.

Sometimes when an individual dies in a wooded area, animals come out and they scavenge the vultures, crows.

If there's