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Called to this scene by police. normally he's part of the investigative team only after a dead body has been found. but this time there's no body, only the suspicion of one. >> 20 years as coroner, that's the first time i had to uncover a buried body. >> after coroner lee got the call at 3:00 a.m. to join the hunt, by prearrangement he immediately notified nbc news. we were in kentucky with exclusive access to cover life in the death business. cases being handled by louisville's medical examiners and the area's coroners. >> every month we have something unusual in harden county, the fourth lar...

>> 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 scenes. >> the ver...

Autopsies on the fire victims. then when a table opens up for roy jeffries. >> we're ready for him. rock and roll. >> it's medical examiner dr. donna hunsaker, a nine-year veteran of the louisville office, who handles the case. >> this is 070116. >> roy jeffries gets his own number. 070116. he's the medical examiner's 116th case of 2007. >> do we have the detective somewhere for this gentleman? >> in fact, there are two detectives. they've had a long couple of days beginning with the questioning of killer clayton kerr the night before. >> how many times did you shoot him? >> digging up the bod...

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