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Right now he's laying on the garage floor of his grandmother's address. >> the call came in at 5:50 a.m. within the hour, bill is moments away. >> i should be there probably in about five, six minutes if we don't get stopped by the police here. >> bill's boss, macomb county medical examiner dr. daniel spitz, sends investigators to most residential death scenes to work with police and make sure no detail is missed. >> they go to scenes. they collect information. they're knowledgeable about wounds and injuries. they have a different set of tools than the police do when it comes to being an inves...

But this case still is an unknown cause of death. and an unknown situation until the exam is done. >> despite the morbid surroundings, it's just another day at the medical examiner's office. >> when are you going back up to your cottage? >> probably next week. i have five off. so i'll be going. i can't wait. oh, i can't wait. >> dr. spitz begins the exam by analyzing the information his medical investigator gathered at the scene. >> you know he's got real signs of chronic alcoholism. he has a long history of alcohol abuse. he's also got a history of prescription drug abuse. >> toxicology will ...

Contusions opposite. that's what these are. these are all contusions. >> right. >> enough to kill you, right? >> yep. he had a very specific bruise pattern of the brain, which is contusions which mean you have a bruise on the brain at the site of the impact and you also have bruising on the brain opposite the site of the impact because of how the brain moves within the skull when there is a head impact. >> having solved charles krueger's cause of death mystery, dr. spitz must now try to determine the manner of death. >> unfortunately, in this case, while the ku and contra ku contusions allow m...

A little bit but not dripping down his legs. >> so he broke both bifold doors off their hinges? >> yes. >> and then kept going down the stairs and through the wall. >> dr. spitz performs hundreds of autopsies every year. he's seen a lot since taking this job in 2004 but the case of charles krueger jr. has to be one of the strangest deaths yet. >> yeah. there he is. >> wow. >> totally through. >> so half of his body's on the landing and the other half is like in the basement. >> yes. >> okay. well, we shall see. there's a lot of unanswered questions. did this man fall and sustain injuries from ...

"y" incision across the body, opening the chest, opening the 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 wa...