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Extensive documentation process required by the chief medical examiner, dr. corey. they assume nothing, because they know they won't get a second chance to examine the body. >> and i have only one opportunity to document the findings as i see them that day. >> they have to be prepared for anything that could happen with the case in the future. for example, if it does go to trial. what if a defense attorney suggests that natural disease contributed to roy's death? dr. corey's office looks for evidence of natural disease. answering that question, even if it never comes up. >> no obvious natural ...

Jobs that medical examiners and coroners do. coroners in kentucky, like bill lee, are elected law enforcement officials. they go to death scenes, take charge of the bodies. and then try to help the families cope. medical examiners are forensic pathologists who perform autopsies. who determine cause of death. possibly providing answers to grieving family members and criminal investigators alike. >> but we're there to try to answer the questions of -- how did this person die? when did this person die? what was happening during the death. >> but dr. corey never could have imagined that we'd be he...

>> unique because, at the time, there was no evidence of foul play. no suspects. not even a body. >> we're being approached before there technically was a case. >> prosecutor shaw says the attorney talked to him in somewhat vague terms, holding back information, hoping to cut a deal for his client. >> at this stage, the defense attorney's not telling us who his client is. he's telling us the type of information he has. but he is telling us this is the person who committed the homicide. >> and most important, he's not telling investigators where to find the body. >> we knew we had a family out ...

Needed to pay. >> clayton kerr confessed to police that he shot and buried roy jeffries because, he said, jeffries had made a pass at his girlfriend. he then led police to the shallow grave where the two detectives on the case, as well as county coroner bill lee, battled frigid temperatures and frozen ground to dig up the body. >> there's a hand. >> yes. >> right lung, 600. >> in kentucky, dr. tracey corey, the chief medical examiner, and her staff, do autopsies to determine the cause for all suspicious and unexplained deaths. but except for mass disasters, they generally don't go to death sce...

>> it turns out kerr's confession also revealed meeks had a role in the crime. >> are you the same person named in the indictment in this case? >> yes, ma'am. >> kerr told police he picked up meeks from work after the murder and she went back to the woods with him to help bury the body. >> did savannah ever touch the body? >> she didn't want to get close to it. she was afraid. >> in her own videotaped confession meeks acknowledged she assisted in the nighttime burial. >> i held the flashlight while he started digging the hole. >> by holding the flashlight, she was helping conceal roy jeffries'...