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It could be related to some type of psychosis where this was done in a purposeful manner. >> andrea's condition deteriorated after being diagnosed with mental illness three years before her death. her family is frustrated and angry with the care she received. >> the mental health care system is grossly inadequate to take care of mentally ill people. >> when will people become aware these aren't strange people out there, these are family members. these are people you pass on the streets. these are people that need care and need someone watching them and there's nobody doing that. >> every exam ...

Spitz. >> the police are asking if you'd be doing this this morning or tomorrow? it's an obvious hanging. hemp rope around the neck, climbed up a ladder and stepped off of it. all right. bye. tomorrow. >> macomb county, michigan, population 900,000, is a mainly working class suburb of detroit. historically, the area's largest employer has been the automotive industry. but with some of the highest unemployment and foreclosure rates in the country things have been grim around here. >> in its heyday, this was a booming community. lately it's been very difficult because of the economy. it's caused...

I kind of sat back and said wait a minute. 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 ...

Playing on carpet reels at this warehouse and cindy fell down this elevator shaft. >> at the morgue, dr. spitz has two goals. he tries to confirm that the remains are indeed cindy's. >> once they are laid out we can photograph everything. we need it to be definitive in regards to the identification. we can't as the medical examiner just assume it is who we think it is based on circumstantial information. we have to be definitive and use some time of biological means to confirm the identity. >> he looks for signs of injury that would explain how this person died and if there is any truth to art...

Fit with his own actions, his own fall down the stairway or could it implicate somebody else? let us see what's in his head. >> now christina moves on to face two of her skillful and hard-to-stomach operation, opening the head so dr. spitz can examine the brain. >> i will take the bone saw and saw around the skull, pick off the skull cap, expose the brain and remove the brain. i have a shield because i do the saw work and sometimes bone and blood will start spattering up and i'd like to save my eyes from getting any of that in there. >> break apart? not really? >> no. >> going to have a big so...