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Appropriately. >> she may have some heart disease. she could have an enlarged heart. certainly that's common in people who are obese. >> excessive body weight puts additional strain on the heart. which over time can cause it to become enlarged. this is known as cardio megaly. once the heart is enlarged its ability to pump blood efficiently may become impaired often leading to heart failure or in some cases sudden death from a cardiac arrhythmia or irregular heart beat. dr. spitz will now determine whether this is what killed ann palmateer. to begin, dr. spitz will try to draw samples of ann's ...

Back of your head you get the 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 means you have a bruise on the brain at the site of the impact and you 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 co...

Sunday is a day of rest for most people in macomb county, michigan. but the dead don't discriminate week days from weekends. by 8:00 a.m., all the key players begin arriving at the macomb county medical examiner's office. >> this is a 24/7 operation -- holidays, weekends, it doesn't really matter. sometimes the days that other people aren't working are our busy days. >> the medical examiner dr. daniel spitz is about to perform an autopsy on charles krueger jr., the man found naked with his head crashed through a wall. dr. spitz's two assistants, michelle waters and christina heisler, prepare t...

Fit with his own actions, his own fall down the stairway or could it implicate somebody else? let us see what's in his head. >> now christina moves on to face two of her skillful and hard-to-stomach operation, opening the head so dr. spitz can examine the brain. >> i will take the bone saw and saw around the skull, pick off the skull cap, expose the brain and remove the brain. i have a shield because i do the saw work and sometimes bone and blood will start spattering up and i'd like to save my eyes from getting any of that in there. >> break apart? not really? >> no. >> going to have a big so...

Dr. spitz says there's no way to know with any degree of certainty. the east pointe police investigation failed to turn up evidence of foul play and found no additional information on the van seen outside mr. krueger's home the night he died and there was no followup on the sexual assault samples taken at the autopsy. >> so, basically closed. kind of a cold status. unless somebody comes forward and says, i knew him. i saw him the day before. he mentioned this. or i saw him with this person. which could kind of open the door. >> i'm just not quite comfortable with certifying the death either as...