Dr. Kendall Crowns

You have to take into account medical records, paramedic reports, death investigators reports, police reports.

All this information combined is how you make the final decision for cause and manner of death.

And the problem is, is when you get a witness statement like your case with the fire, that doesn't make sense with the autopsy findings.

Then you have to tell the investigators and the police, you know, things aren't adding up.

I need more information.

And then more investigation is done and you'll get more information showing that this individual may have been murdered or a homicide.

And the thing is, is you'll get range of fire issues with gunshot wounds where they're saying it's contact and it's obviously farther away.

And if you can't get a witness statement that makes sense, you just have to go with the information you have and make a opinion and make a judgment call on manner of death.

At 3 p.m.

he did some errands and went to his mother's house in Swampscott but got lost because he didn't have his phone.

He said he knew he was lost when he saw the pirate ship on Route 1.

The defendant stayed 15 minutes, then went to Whole Foods and CVS.

Surveillance was checked, and he did not enter either of those stores.

Data from his phone also tracked his whereabouts on January 3rd.

Locations were traveled at 427 on January 3rd to an apartment complex in Abington.

Surveillance shows the defendant's Volvo, as well as a male fitting the defendant's appearance, exit a car near the dumpster.

He walks through the dumpster carrying a garbage bag.

He's leaning, and it appears to be heavy as he has to heft it into the dumpster.

He walks through the dumpster with the garbage bag and leaves it.

On 448, he hit another complex in Abington, and at 5.10 p.m., cell phone shows records at another apartment in Brockton.