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Casket to open. once it was raised you could see part of elizabeth ratliffs face and hair. it was remarkable. >> reporter: they were stunned. the body was practically intact. >> her fingernail polish was still on. her dress was still perfectly in place. >> reporter: the m.e. took a closer look at the injuries to elizabeths head. she was finding lacerations, deep gouges in the scalp. seven of them. >> seven lacerations. you could -- black: it was amazing -- >> count them. >> it was uncanny. the l...

>> there was a risk here wasnt there? if you opened that coffin and found that the authorities in germany had been correct in ruling it a death by natural causes. >> we just decided that it needed to be done. >> roll the dice, basically. >> exactly. >> reporter: the detective peered through a morgue window as the top was pried off elizabeth ratliffs coffin. >> it was so airtight it was hard to use the crank to get the casket to open. once it was raised you could see part of elizabeth ratliffs fa...

Hard to use the crank to get the casket to open. once it was raised you could see part of elizabeth ratliffs face and hair. it was remarkable. >> reporter: they were stunned. the body was practically intact. >> her fingernail polish was still on. her dress was still perfectly in place. >> reporter: the m.e. took a closer look at the injuries to elizabeths head. she was finding lacerations, deep gouges in the scalp. seven of them. >> seven lacerations. you could -- black: it was amazing -- >> cou...

But right when i sat up and the tent was shaking all over the place, i started screaming. >> we see that youre on crunches. what have the doctors told you about your injuries? >> i just have two deep gouges and a tooth mark on my tibia. they left them open kind of like they would war wounds and then theyre going to go in and clean it out today and stitch it up. >> and, maria, i know that they have or they think that they have found the bear that attacked your camp ground. what do you think shoul...