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That opportunity, he will have a little bit better information for us as to how she died, when she may have died, what may have caused her death. >> when dr. spitz is done examining the body, a private company contracted by the medical examiner's office transports the victim to the morgue where the autopsy will be performed the next morning. as the body leaves the scene, the sheriff's office continues its investigation. detectives talk with neighbors who say they've been hearing loud noises over the last few weeks. >> doors slamming, commotion, loud talking, mostly at night, a lot at night whe...

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 was going to find a lot more. a little bit of blood in her abdo...

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...

Fell down. this is the bifold door and there's the wall. 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...

You will also miss cases where somebody had a natural event that essentially caused their death. actually while the person was in the water. >> after the hour plus autopsy dr. spitz has reached a conclusion which toxicology reports confirm weeks later. the man's system had no trace of drugs or alcohol. his death is purely accidental. >> it certainly looks to be a drowning death. there is probably a component of the environment where he was swimming which caused it to be very difficult for him to maintain himself on the water. >> it appears he got swept out of the swimming area by the tide and ...