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Friends, family and most importantly by a star witness. >> my opinion is that the manner of death is homicide. >> reporter: the doctor, famous forensic pathologist, told jurors of crime scene spoke of a murder, not an accident. >> if a person falls accidentally, the individual will be within a couple of feet of the base of the building. >> reporter: that didnt happen in the case of jody. her body landed 50 feet out from the top of the cliff. and 30 feet to the north. >> she had to have been prop...

>> in terms of hard evidence, it had nothing new. >> reporter: the prosecutor did have someone new. a famous name to join the investigation into jodys death. dr. michael bodden, a world renounced forensic pathologist who investigated the death of john f. kennedy and testified at the trial of o.j. simpson. he was about to turn up the heat on a very cold case. >> the doctor has reviewed the evidence and has determined that this could not have been an accidental fall. >> reporter: in december of 20...

Here with his assessment is dr. michael baden, leading forensic pathologist. welcome to the set and thanks for joining us. will this health bill make the opioid crisis worse? >> absolutely. were in a real epidemic, at the beginning, and if we dont do something in treatment, in research, in trying to diminish in the amount of drugs that are being pushed on the public by the pharmaceutical companies and doctors who are not prescribing properly, itll with be a lot worse next year and the year after...

In her coke. but its speculation. >> but there was no way to prove it. so investigators turned to another set of pictures, the ones taken during donnas autopsy. they were analyzed by forensic pathologist dr. barbara weakley- jones. she noticed two things which were barely mentioned in the original autopsy. wounds on the back of donnas hands, but not on her palms. and her fingernails were broken. >> she is up like this, and she is grabbing hold of the edge, the nails would break off. well the sam...

Tinas parents insisted that her death was in self-defense because she had attacked them with a knife. tinas father was covered in blood and had cuts on his hands which he said were defensive wounds that resulted from his daughters knife attack. >> when i reviewed a little bit of history i knew at the time, it sounded extremely suspicious to me. >> medical examiners have long referred to the autopsy as the silent witness. a way for the victim to tell her story. things that the suspects in a crime...

And her nose and suffocated her. >> in light of the confession, forensic pathologist dr. mary case examined the skull. she studied the small wound on the back of the skull and concluded that it was not the result of an accident, but rather, the result of blunt trauma to the head. >> this is a very limited area. its pushed inward. and we tend to see this kind of depressed skull fracture when you strike the head with something that has very forceful impact over a very small striking surface. a ham...

Tinas parents insisted her death was in self-defense because she had attacked them with a knife. tinas father was covered in blood. and had cuts on his hands which he said were defensive wounds that resulted from his daughters knife attack. >> when i reviewed a little bit of history i knew at the time, it sounded extremely suspicious to me. >> medical examiners have long referred to the autopsy as the silent witness. a way for the victim to tell her story. things that the suspects in a crime usu...

It. so investigators turned to another set of pictures, the ones taken during donnas autopsy. they were analyzed by forensic pathologist dr. barbara weakley- jones. she noticed two things which were barely mentioned in the original autopsy. wounds on the back of donnas hands, but not on her palms. and her fingernails were broken. >> she is up like this, and she is grabbing hold of the edge, the nails would break off. well the same -- you should then have abrasions on the palm surface of your han...

In her coke. but its speculation. >> but there was no way to prove it. so investigators turned to another set of pictures, the ones taken during donnas autopsy. they were analyzed by forensic pathologist dr. barbara weekly jones. she noticed two things which were barely mentioned in the original autopsy, wounds on the back of donnas hands, but not on her palms, and her fingernails were broken. >> she is up like this, and she is grabbing hold of the edge, the nails would break off. you should the...

It. so investigators turned to another set of pictures, the ones taken during donnas autopsy. they were analyzed by forensic pathologist dr. barbara weekly jones. she noticed two things which were barely mentioned in the original autopsy, wounds on the back of donnas hands, but not on her palms, and her fingernails were broken. >> she is up like this, and she is grabbing hold of the edge, the nails would break off. you should then have abrasions on the palm surface of your hands as youre going d...