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And what appeared to be that straight cut on his neck was due to animal activity. suspicious of the investigation, the family had already hired an independent pathologist who made a very different finding after examining the body herself. >> i have a high index of suspicion that this is a homicide. >> reporter: dr. leanne grossmann says that contrary to the autopsy, alfred did appear to have severe trauma to the neck and head. his missing ear and teeth evidence. and it seemed his throws had been...

I want to bring you part two of a cnn exclusive report on the mysterious death of alfred wright. hes the father of two who vanished last november in texas. his family was found after the local authorities there gave up. just stopped searching for him. the local sheriff told them there were no signs of foul play, but there were some serious signs that were mysterious on his body. the family says so many things do not adds up here. heres debra and some of the images you may find disturbing. >> rep...

Days, it would have been in a much different state than what we found. >> reporter: alfreds body was stretched out and he was wearing a pair of black boxers, two tennis shoes but just one sock. his father and the volunteers who had searched for him on the other hand were caked in mud an their clothing was torn. which made alfreds appearance even stranger. >> what was weird about his sock is that in this area, his socks were clean and his sock was pulled up as if he was in a sunday school class. ...

Death of 28-year-old alfred wright. hes the rural texas father of two who vanished last november. his family found his body nearly three weeks later, two weeks after local authorities gave up searching. the local sheriff told them there was no sign of foul play. the family says that virtually nothing underlying that conclusion makes any sense. not the cause of death, not the bodys condition, not the official theory of how and why a man with everything to live for stripped down to his boxers wand...

The woods for more than two weeks. >> reporter: well, thats exactly right. thats why the family wants to know exactly when those drugs actually entered his system. whether in fact it was during the three weeks that he had simply disappeared, he vanished. they dont believe thats where he ended up, certainly not in the days immediately after he disappeared. also the texas rangers reached out to us this evening. they tell us that in fact that cut to the neck, they say, was made by the medical exami...

Severe trauma. and those missing teeth? the report concluded it was due to insect activity. and what appeared to be that straight cut on his neck was due to animal activity. suspicious of the investigation, the family had already hired an independent pathologist who made a very different finding after examining the body herself. >> i have a high index of suspicion that this is a homicide. >> reporter: dr. leanne grossmann says that contrary to the autopsy, alfred did appear to have severe trauma...

Bottle, the fine bedding company encouraged customers to don a duvet. godzilla addressed the dress issue. a dress that started out on the catwalk and ended up being mocked by a copycat. jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> thanks for watching. heres anderson. good evening. the sheriff says no foul play. the dead mans family says coverup. tonight how theyre trying to prove it. part two of our exclusive investigation into the strange disappearance and suspicious death of an african-american man in tex...

African-american man in texas. also tonight, the husband of a brain dead pregnant woman says she never wanted it to end this way. hooked up to a machine, the hospital wont disconnect. now a new development, hes taking the case to court. and the strange and terrible case of a man who shoots and kills someone for texting in a movie theater and is claiming self-defense by getting hit by something witnesses say was nothing more than a bag of popcorn. we begin with keeping them honest, into the...

Request the investigation was turned over to the texas rangers. the sheriff had told the family there was no foul play. the rangers, however, have since called alfreds death questionable. and have asked the fbi to assist. so what about the drugs and the autopsy performed by a local medical examiner and attended by a close friend. saying the death was accidental caused by a mix of cocaine, methamphetamines, and meth. but that same autopsy said he died three hours after his family found his partia...

Area in the days after alfreds truck broke down and some of his clothing was found scattered around the property. then there was no sign of alfred, leading the family to believe his body ended up here after the search. >> theres an open gate here, almost a straight path, and then his body was right through the gate, the fence here. one of the only open trails in this woods. >> what doesnt make sense to you about what you were told by law enforcement? >> everything. >> reporter: we went to the sa...