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I go to crime scenes. i work with the police involving deaths and involving injury cases. i never know when my phone rings what the next mystery may be. >> dr. spitz is a forensic pathologist and often testifies at trials to explain his findings. one of the most high-profile cases he's investigated is the death of tara grant, a 34-year-old mother of who whose dismembered body was found in her garage in 2007. >> all indicative of a manual strangulation. >> her husband stephen grant was found guilty of second-degree murder. dr. spitz has investigated thousands of unexplained deaths. but the scen...

Cindy's disappearance for 12 years. >> the family described this. she always had a purse with her. >> this looks to be like a black, like a plastic, maybe leather type bag. >> dr. spitz carefully goes through every scrap. >> mainly i'm looking for any kind of damage to the clothing that could be indicative of an injury that she may have sustained. you are looking for any clues as to what may have caused her death. >> the clothes and purse seem to point to a teenage girl. but the bones tell even more. after several hours of sifting through the remains, dr. spitz lays the skeleton out carefully....

510 grams. >> and then there are the occasional cases that may never be resolved. toxicology on charles krueger jr. yields unexpected results. >> he has no evidence of acute alcohol intoxication. and that was concerning for me. most of the time alcoholics who fall and sustain fatal injuries are intoxicated at the time of the injury. >> police work uncovered information that the man had had a seizure one day before his death and was treated at a local hospital and released. perhaps the next day he had another one, causing him to lose his balance and fall down the stairs. is it really possible t...

It's hard because it definitely hits home. i knew her when she was healthy and happy. to see her in this kind of condition, it's heart wrenching. >> making the case even more difficult. neither dr. spitz nor investigator roland can find any obvious answers as to how the woman died. >> it is very mysterious at this point. i tell you, it is a rare scene that i've been to where you have sort of conflicting evidence -- in other words, blood evidence indicating some type of trauma but a body which doesn't show any trauma. at this point, we haven't confirmed the blood belongs to her. >> if the blood...

Small amount of bleeding and there was a small injury to her liver which was cpr related. that was quickly ruled as being sort of an artifact of resuscitation as opposed to being related to her death. >> then the rest of the body is examined in the order in which dr. spitz always conducts these exams, organs removed, weighed, and dissected. and, finally, the head opened up. >> with a history of headaches you might expect some type of catastrophic bleed in the brain but that doesn't seem to be the case so far. coming up next, this medical mystery is about to be solved. >> certainly seems to b...