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I relayed that to the police now who are in the process of determining whose blood does that belong to. >> dr. spitz and detectives believe the woman's psychiatric history may hold the keys to understanding her death and the bloody scene. >> it is going to be a medical or toxicology issue that we sort out after we get more results in. >> okay. >> take some fingerprints and then we're done. we've gained a lot of information over the last 24 hours about what's going on. this woman, unfortunately, has some psychiatric illness. she's got some medical problems related to that. she's had multiple ho...

Getting swept away while walking his dog. now, back to our special. >> dr. daniel spitz is the medical examiner for macomb and st. claire counties, just north of detroit michigan. investigators from his office attend every death scene in the county occurring outside a hospital, hospice, or nursing home. his job, simply stated, to perform autopsies and figure out why people died. >> we obviously don't like surprises. we send an investigator to basically make sure the death is what it seems to be. and many times that allows us to comfortably release the body to the family, to the funeral home,...

Death. even though the organs are decomposed you can still at this level of decomposition make a pretty good analysis of everything. you have a stock container? >> all of ann's organs turn out to be normal except for her enlarged heart. but until her blood samples are tested for drugs, dr. spitz must move this death investigation as pending. >> one of the things i will exclude before i focus my attention back on the heart is the toxicology concern that i have because of the medications that she's on. but i will be much more comfortable once i exclude that an overdose of medication played a rol...

A team of forensic nurses is brought in to take samples which will be sent to a lab for analysis. >> and the reason we were called in was because it's a suspicious death. it's not known at this point what the cause of death was. >> you're done? okay. cool. thanks. >> all autopsies begin with an external exam. as michelle and christina clean off the body, dr. spitz takes note of any physical injuries. >> all right. let's roll him this way and then roll him the other way and we shall soon start. holy cow. >> mr. krueger's blood alcohol could be a key factor in determining how he died. so michell...

No blood, not on his underwear. 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...