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Ready to go. let dad see him for a minute. all set. okay, guys. were going to take him back to our facilities and dr. spitz is going to do the exam tomorrow. >> 19-year-old ryan sudowsky hasnt lost a job or a house. hes lost hope. according to his parents, ryan was trying to join the marine corps to get his life back on track after several run-ins with the law but the marines say it was ryans arrest record that prevented him from being enrolled. its human nature to look for blame. the sudowskys ...

Fit with his own actions, his own fall down the stairway or could it implicate somebody else? let us see whats in his head. >> now christina moves on to face two of her skillful and hard-to-stomach operation, opening the head so dr. spitz can examine the brain. >> i will take the bone saw and saw around the skull, pick off the skull cap, expose the brain and remove the brain. i have a shield because i do the saw work and sometimes bone and blood will start spattering up and id like to save my ey...

Cindy 22 years ago and leads authorities to the spot where remains are recovered. he says he didnt kill her. ream claims she died in an accident while playing with his son scott. scott died in a car accident in 1994. nine years after cindy disappeared. >> he is still trying to blame it on his son saying they were playing on carpet reels at this warehouse and cindy fell down this elevator shaft. >> at the morgue, dr. spitz has two goals. he tries to confirm that the remains are indeed cindys. >> ...

One undercover detective asks us not to reveal his face. >> do you have the rope? >> yes. >> take a picture of it so we can correlate it with the ligature mark. quite an elaborate knot on the rope he prepared. left what could be a suicide note but not really. stating what hes planning on doing. >> just rambling about the family. ive got a copy. >> okay. we take a copy for our file. >> with the external exams completed, dr. spitz is now ready to move on to the internal exams. as hes about to star...

Have any on this side. hes full of rigor. happens about 12 hours after death. hes also a young man, really good muscle structure. the more muscle you have the more rigor youll have because it binds to the proteins in your muscles. >> once the bodies are photographed and bodily fluids drawn for toxicology testing, dr. spitz begins the external exams. a comprehensive analysis of the body from head to toe. he bounces back and forth between the two cases, beginning with jill moore. because of her in...

>> the woman is identified. andrea bean. and more of her story is revealed. police have responded to several disturbances at the residence in the past. she also has a history of mental illness, information that may help ultimately determine the cause of death. >> you never know when you are going to hold the vital piece of evidence, have the crucial finding, that ah-ha moment. >> two morgue attendants assist dr. spitz with the autopsy. >> im already done with tox. >> kristina heisler. >> what i ...

It was sort of a sudden collapse actually. the other case is a 35-year-old man who was swimming in a public beach and a lifeguard there pulled him from the water but after several minutes, though he was transported to the hospital, he was pronounced dead at the hospital. >> dr. spitz begins with 35-year-old jehad who drowned at the beach saturday afternoon. toxicology samples have been drawn. theyll be sent to the lab for analysis. >> the question would, be it looks like he drowned so why bother...

Bleeding, there are questions about whether hes been sexually assaulted. a team of forensic nurses is brought in to take samples which will be sent to a lab for analysis. >> and the reason we were called in was because its a suspicious death. its not known at this point what the cause of death was. >> youre done? okay. cool. thanks. >> all autopsies begin with an external exam. as michelle and christina clean off the body, dr. spitz takes note of any physical injuries. >> all right. lets roll hi...

>> hes been fascinated with this subspecialty of medicine since childhood. his father, dr. werner spitz is one of the countrys best known forensic pathologists. after graduating from medical school in 1995 he did six more years of training in anatomic, clinical, and forensic pathology. >> its not a field that attracts huge numbers of people. its not billed as being glamorous like you see on various television shows but it has its own reasons for my interest. >> on this sunday afternoon in macomb...

Medical examiner dr. daniel spitz is finishing up his autopsy of andrea bean, a 42-year-old mother of four found dead in her condominium in macomb county, michigan. >> obviously that doesnt account for the blood thats at the scene. >> hes trying to solve a mystery. a large amount of blood is found throughout andreas home, but strangely, there is no blood on her and no wounds that show where the blood came from. >> again, the question is, is it her blood and how long has it been there? that ones ...