Dr. Kendall Crowns

Well, I'm telling you the science, but if it's really pronounced, you can get an idea that there's been more blood flow restored.

But if there's just minimal petechial hemorrhages that occurred initially, it won't be necessarily different.

It's just that the fact that there's more of them means that there was more blood flow, more circulation.

How can I tell she thrashed?

Put the neck in a carotid sleeper hold and she starts pushing against the pressure on her neck.

That can cause the bruising.

Also internally, when the skin is dissected up and you look at the neck muscles, you can see stretching hemorrhages of the neck muscles from them trying to pull out of the hold as well.

So you can see that internally, like hemorrhages in the musculature that show that she was violently fighting against the constrictive process on her neck.

I'm going to put a wig on and wear some really tall shoes because I'm four foot nine.

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.