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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...

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 very significant finding because that is a condition tha...

Necessarily normal. i don't want to see something here and be paranoid and cause my kids to not have a normal childhood because of something that i saw. i realize that accidents happen, i realize that traffic accidents are frequent, pedestrian accidents, kids on bikes, drownings. i realize all these things happen. i see them regularly. >> okay, addison, you're in there. >> michigan winters are long and cold. on sunny days like this dr. spitz and his family try to get out on the water as often as they can. but this family outing is about to take a strange turn. in a chilling coincidence just te...

Because the woman had a previous episode of smearing bodily fluids around the condo. he says he looked in on her, heard her breathing and left. >> my understanding is the boyfriend did notice some blood, but that maybe she was having a period. >> investigators cart off bags of evidence. as word of the bizarre bloody scene spreads, the local news shows up and the woman's death becomes a top story. at the morgue the woman's body is put in a walk-in cooler kept at 42 degrees fahrenheit, halting decomposition. dr. spitz knows law enforcement as well as family, friends and neighbors of the 42-year-...

>> dr. spitz will remove, study, and weigh all vital organs. then he'll move on to the head. >> when you do his head, just leave the bone on there. i'll take it off so i can see what's in there. we've got some head trauma for sure. >> we kind of got it down to a system between him, me, and christina. we've learned to maneuver in a small area pretty quickly without running into each other, without stabbing each other, which is always nice. >> there's a distinct division of duties here in the morgue. each assistant knows her job and sticks to it. >> i'm more of the eviscerator. it's not going to...