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Man has severe liver disease. >> that's from long-standing alcohol. look at that. it's as cirrhotic as they get. he's a young man, 36, pretty unusual to develop cirrhosis of the liver at that age. the autopsy did confirm he had alcoholic liver cirrhosis. i want to confirm his toxicology was not a causative or contributory factor in the death because he does have an underlying history of prescription drug abuse. >> curt lewitski's autopsy like andrea bean's, is filed as pending until test results come back. coming up -- these bones may hold the answer to a 22-year-old crime. >> we're trying t...

Large amounts of water which is the polydypsia. and the psychogeneric part means it's brought on by an underlying psychosis. >> the autopsy results are not a surprise to her family. andrea had been hospitalized for the condition before. >> andrea had a history of three other episodes of losing consciousness, she would have a seizure, stop breathing and then nearly cardiac arrest. >> dr. spitz is able to determine the cause and manner of andrea's death. but the blood found throughout her house remain as mystery. because of a backlog of the state crime lab, tests to see if the blood is andrea's ...

Was done in a purposeful manner. >> andrea's condition deteriorated since 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 that these aren't just strange people out there? these are family members. these are people that you pass on the streets. these are people that need care. need someone watching them and there's nobody doing it. >> every exam dr. spitz performs is different. but the same g...

It on his son, saying they were 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 type of biological means to confirm the identity. >> he looks for signs of injury that would explain how this person died ...

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 role in th...