Shaun Kent

There is natural consequences.

Somebody would have had to put their body in the trunk, so it would have had to be a murder.

There is, make sure I get this right, there is homicide.

That is the easy way to explain it.

Did I get that right?

Accident, natural, suicide.

But it's not because the medical examiner must still determine, as we mentioned, cause and manner.

Oh, and undetermined, meaning they can't make a determination as to what has happened.

So when a medical examiner is figuring out, they must figure out after they figure out the cause, then they must figure out the manner.

Remember, this body was found decaying in a trunk for quite some time.

And you might have a situation where the medical examiner is like, I don't know the cause of death.

All homicide means is the death was caused at the hands of another person.

And I hate to say it, this could be an example.

You could have a situation, as we mentioned, that someone died of a heart attack, went off the side of a road, and then somebody dismembered their body.

That's all homicide means.

People get confused and think every homicide is a murder.

No.

The dismemberment of the body did not cause the death and is not the manner of the death.

Homicide is a medical determination.

Murder is a legal determination.