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That essentially caused their death. actually while the person was in the water. >> after the hour plus autopsy dr. spitz has reached a dr. spitz has reached a conclusion which toxicology reports confirm weeks later. the man's system had no trace of drugs or alcohol. his death is purely accidental. >> it certainly looks to be a drowning death. there is probably a component of the environment where he was swimming which caused it to be very difficult for him to maintain himself on the water. >> it appears he got swept out of the swimming area by the tide and then stuck in seaweed on the lake's ...

The gentleman doesn't seem to have neon this side. he's full of rigor. happens about 12 hours after death. he's also a young man, really good muscle structure. the more muscle you have the more rigor you'll have because it binds to the proteins in your muscles. >> once the bodies are photographed and bodily fluids drawn for toxicology testing, dr. spitz begins the external exams. a comprehensive analysis of the body from head to toe. he bounces back and forth between the two cases, beginning with jill moore. because of her initial symptom this week severe jaw pain at first everyone is wonderin...

This could be some type of aneurism that ruptured but quickly figured out it was a small amount of bleeding and there was a small injury to her liver which was cpr related. that was quickly ruled as being sort of an artifact of resuscitation as opposed to being related to her death. >> then the rest of the body is examined in the order in which dr. spitz always conducts these exams, organs removed, weighed, and dissected. and, finally, the head opened up. >> with a history of headaches you might expect some type of catastrophic bleed in the brain but that doesn't seem to be the case so far. ...

This is a routine. we have to come out for every case. high blood pressure, any heart problems, asthma? >> i don't know. he'd been on alcohol for quite a few years. >> okay. >> the man is open about his son's alcoholism. over the years, doctor spitz has seen that in many cases people end up in his office at least partly as a result of their own actions. >> one of the things that happens in a medical examiner setting is if you look at all the cases and step back, you see that most of the people that are in the office have done something to contribute to themselves being there. >> i'm going to e...

>> that's from long-standing alcohol. look at that. it's as cirrhotic as they get. he's a young man, 36, pretty unusual to develop cirrhosis of the liver at that age. the autopsy did confirm he had alcoholic liver cirrhosis. i want to confirm his toxicology was not a causative or contributory factor in the death because he does have an underlying history of prescription drug abuse. >> curt lewitski's autopsy like andrea bean's, is filed as pending until test results come back. coming up -- these bones may hold the answer to a 22-year-old crime. >> we're trying to fill in the gaps as to what ...