Dr. Kendall Crowns

You're not seeing that in the pictures.

What you're seeing is it's pulling straight back.

And it's almost as if someone is pulling it from behind, crushing his neck.

And then you add on to the fact that he has the fractures of the thyroid bones, the fractures of the hyoid, which are very unlike hanging.

They can occur, but not to that extent.

So you've got multiple fractures of the thyroid cartilage, fracture of the highway bone, a horizontal ligature impression.

It's not tipping up.

It all doesn't fit with a suspension type hanging.

It kind of fits with someone pulling it from behind.

And also there's some claim that, you know, it's a cloth ligature and he could have leaned into it.

Again, if he's leaning into it, he weighs 196 pounds.

You know, it wouldn't have caused those type of injuries we're seeing.

It's all very suspicious.

And even looking at the picture itself of the ligature,

It has a pattern to it that looks wavy.

And if it's this cloth that keeps being shown in the pictures, I don't see the waviness to the pattern on the ligature that matches to that cloth.

So it's all very, very suspicious.

So when you're looking at the deep ligature furrow in the picture on the, I think it's on the left, if you look at the kind of the black and the red to it, it has a waviness look to it that doesn't fit with that cloth-type ligature.

Also with cloth ligatures, they're usually soft.

And they don't dig into the neck as much as you're seeing there.