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>> with cause and manner of death now conclusively determined in both of the day's cases, jill moore and ryan sudowsky are ready to be picked up by their respective funeral homes. dr. spitz's work is done for the day. it's odd to consider but tomorrow's cases may be alive and well at the moment with no idea they're about to end up on the autopsy table tomorrow morning. but the doctor tried not to think about things like that as he spends what's left of the weekend out on lake st. claire with his family. >> go for a ride. as far as taking my work home, i try not to. you know, i don't think it w...

Toxicology results for curt lewitski, a 36-year-old man who died in bed, show high levels of several prescription drugs in his system. dr. spitz records the cause of death as an accidental overdose. >> it showed he was acutely intoxicated by alcohol .15, it also showed that he had methadone, hydrocodone and oxymorphone. some pretty potent pain medications. lab results solved the mystery of how andrea bean died. she was found in her bed with blood smeared throughout the house, but with no blood on her. tests show a severe electrolight imbalance caused her death. dr. spitz believes it was acci...

Authorities in macomb county, michigan, descend on a remote wooded area near a river. a convicted killer has confessed to burying a young girl here 22 years ago. >> everyone was on scene as the excavation unfolded over the course of many hours. >> looks like the purse. >> it does look like the coat. or the hat. >> yeah. >> the digging stops when skeletal remains are found. >> then it became a medical examiner case really because human remains found in the county believed to be related to some type of foul play certainly became the jurisdiction of the medical examiner. >> medical examiner danie...

At first glance dr. daniel spitz's morning routine looks fairly typical. he's picked up his dry cleaning and stopped off for a take out breakfast. but what follows next would leave most people cold. he's about to perform an autopsy on ann palmateer, a 42-year-old caucasian woman found dead and decomposing in her home. >> 42-year-old female found in bed. this is a psychiatric disorder, schizophrenia. hadn't been seen by her family for five days. >> during the course of the investigation, it was found that she had a fairly extensive psychiatric history and generally a psychiatric history is asso...

>> 911, where is your emergency? >> a woman is found dead in her home. blood is streaked and splattered throughout the premises. >> she's got her head and her neck wedged between the bed and the wall. >> okay. >> her kitchen and her hallway is covered in blood. >> minutes later, dr. daniel spitz, the chief medical examiner for macomb and st. clair counties in michigan, is on his way to the location. >> apparently there's quite a bit of blood at the scene. i'm not sure what kind of wounds we're dealing with, if any, at this point. >> medical investigator patty roland, who works with dr. spitz, ...