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Recognized that it was going to be any information, it would have been on the event record. >> the software produced a detailed graph that yielded a spectacular array of information. >> the interesting part that we could work out is that we could tell exactly when the patient awoke, when the patient went outside and was being assaulted and finally when the patient had died. in between that time, there was a period when the patient was unconscious and bleeding to death and at that point the pacem...

Contract. >> i was vaguely aware that pacemakers have a recording unit inside them. >> if so, crawfords pacemaker might reveal the exact time of his murder. unfortunately, pacemakers hold information for only a short time before its recorded over. the autopsy took place almost 30 hours after the murder, which meant the pacemaker memory might have already been erased. >> we knew that we didnt have a great deal of time, that we were running out of time. >> the hospitals pacemaker specialist quickl...

>> all police had to do now was find out who didnt have an alibi for 5:34 that morning. >> it reminded me of a quote of eleanor roosevelt who said that many people will walk in and out of your life but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart. in this case, we had a pacemaker. thanks to dr. robert kelsall and his quick response to the readings on the pacemaker found during david crawfords autopsy, investigators now knew the exact time of crawfords death, 5:34 in the morning. but i...

David crawfords autopsy took place in the royal hobart hospital the day after his body was discovered. the cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head. most likely caused by an ax or similar implement. crawford had been a healthy, 72-year-old man except for some heart trouble. >> he had a condition called cardiomyopathy, which simply meant that he had heart disease of unknown cause. >> then dr. kelsall made a discovery that would change the course of the investigation. he found that crawfo...

In an attempt to further shore up his alibi, jones went to his cousins house at 7:30 that morning and he arranged to find crawfords body with his cousin there as a witness hoping the discovery would eliminate him as a suspect. but jones didnt know about the pacemaker. had he waited to call police just a little while longer, the pacemakers memory would have been lost long before the autopsy. >> its possible that in the court of law he may have been found not guilty in that there was insufficient ...

A pacemaker was used in a murder trial. in october of 2001, ivan jones was convicted of murder and sentenced to 20 years in prison. the pacemaker was a silent witness, but it told the jury all they needed to know. >> ill carry it with me for the rest of my career. i encourage other investigators to give that consideration to pacemakers because time of death is not known and you never know what youll get from data of a pacemaker. >> these things were never heard of years ago in solving crimes lik...

Christopher and dana reeve foundation have developed a type of therapy that challenges the long standing notion that the spinal cord, once damaged, can never recover. >> the spinal cord has a capacity that we never thought it had before. the more we learn about it, the more we can use that knowledge to help people with paralysis. >> heres how it works in a nutshell. below the injury, doctors implant a device the size of a pacemaker and collect electrodes along the spinal cord. when turned on, el...

Diagnosed with a heart disease and had a pacemaker and defibrillator implanted in me. doctors informed me any form of stress or anxiety was caused to setting off the device. this led my mother and i to decide this car was a death trap. driving this car was like playing a game of russian roulette with my safety and that of my friends. i cant even begin to explain the fear and confusion that runs through you that moment when you have no control over your car. i cannot comprehend the loss these fam...

Gregg: all right. ref up your pacemaker. were about to show you heart-stopping video after man trying to outrun a train in california, all captured on surveillance video. this is near redwood city. a group of people scamper across the tracks. then the guy comes barreling down. one more trying to make a cross as the train passes him just inches. you can hear the trains horn blaring in response. the man was okay. caltrans warning that incidents like this slow down the whole system because every ne...

She had a neck brace so shes looking straight up, she cant look out so then i run in to grab her hand and i grabbed her hand and we locked eyes and she said, mommy! and i was thrilled that she recognized me. >> but kylie wont get to saver the reunion for long. within an hour she goes into surgery where shes fitted with a pacemaker to help protect her from what turns out to have been a previously undetected abnormality. >> kylie did not have a seizure, she has an arrhythmia. what the aed red was ...