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>> there's no sign of trauma or any other obvious explanation for the woman's death. >> really not much else we can do right now, just contact the medical examiner, talk to him, explain the circumstances. >> if you need help i'll give you a hand. >> dwayne locksmith a medical investigator for st. claire county which is also in dr. spitz' jurisdiction, organizes the transfer of ms. palmateer's body to the morgue. dr. spitz will attempt to rule a cause of death in the morning.

Abdomen, and removing the rib plate, the chest plate so that you can visualize the chest and abdominal organs and then looking at the body cavities, looking for collections of blood or infection. >> something going on in her abdomen with all this blood. >> watch, find it's an aneurism. >> let's just work our way down. >> oh, there's a problem. >> the first clue dr. spitz finds? an accumulation of blood in mrs. moore's abdomen. but he quickly determines the blood is not significant. >> that's only a little bit of blood. i thought i was going to find a lot more. a little bit of blood in her abdo...

19 years old. and then a woman here who was in the hospital who went in for some jaw pain and was really being treated for that but nobody felt it was much of anything and she was actually being scheduled to be sent home and all of a sudden went into cardiac arrest and died, so an unusual situation. >> sunday may be a day of rest for many but for macomb county, michigan medical examiner dr. daniel spitz, the work never stops. >> took what kind of blood so far? >> three and one. >> christina heisler, one of dr. spitz's two assistants, prepares both of today's cases simultaneously. the first is ...

It's an analysis of the drugs and the levels and the circumstances which allow you to come to the conclusion as to whether this is a drug related death. >> once toxicology is drawn, dr. spitz begins to remove the woman's fragile organs. he quickly sees that his hunch about an enlarged heart is dead on. >> her heart is awful big for a woman, even an overweight woman. so that's one potential problem right there. the heart? yeah. that's big. >> the average weight of a female heart is 280 grams. ann's heart is nearly twice that size. >> when we find an enlargement of the heart like that it's a ver...

She for the medical examiner, he for the east point police. once they fully assess the scene, renee had the body moved to the kitchen floor so she can do a proper physical exam. when she's done, a company contracted by the county will transport mr. krueger's body to the morgue where dr. spitz will perform an autopsy first thing tomorrow morning. based on mr. kruger's history of alcoholism, it could appear he's the victim of a drunken accident. >> he'd obviously been down a while. >> but renee is careful not to jump to any conclusions. in fact, no alcohol had been found at the scene. now it wil...