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So it's kind of an unusual situation. >> sunday may be a day of rest for many, but for macomb county michigan medical examiner dr. daniel spitz, the work never stops. >> took what kind of blood so far? >> three and one. >> christina heisler, one of dr. spitz's two assistants, prepares both of today's cases simultaneously. the first is jill moore, a 44-year-old mother who went to the hospital complaining of head pain after a recent dental cleaning and died in the e.r. >> keep in mind i did have my own hypothesis just based on that terminal event, a sudden cardiac arrest while in the hospital se...

>> i should be there probably in about five, six minutes if we don't get stopped by the police here. >> bill's boss, macomb county medical examiner dr. daniel spitz, sends investigators to most residential death scenes to work with police and make sure no detail is missed. >> arriving at destination on left. >> they go to scenes. they collect information. they're knowledgeable about wounds and injuries. they have a different set of tools than the police do when it comes to being an investigator for a deceased person. many times the case is not suspicious but we don't know that until one of our...

>> from what i understand he had a couple friends come over. >> okay. we'll go take a look. see what we got. >> did they remove the rope from his neck? >> by 7:00 a.m. investigator bill robinette has been briefed by officers on the scene and begun an external exam on the man identified as 19-year-old ryan sudowsky. >> okay. you can roll him over. bring him my way, i guess. >> when bill's done with the exam, he calls dr. spitz. >> the police are asking if you'd be doing this this morning or tomorrow? it's an obvious hanging. hemp rope around the neck, climbed up a ladder and stepped off of it. ...

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 ten miles away in the very same body of water, dr. spitz's next patient has just met his final fate. >> we were dispatched to the beach where a younger white male was discovered in the water. the lifeguard pulled him out ...

>> dr. spitz begins with 35-year-old jehad who drowned at the beach saturday afternoon. toxicology samples have been drawn. they'll be sent to the lab for analysis. >> the question would, be it looks like he drowned so why bother to do this? you never want to assume that a body recovered from water is a drowning death. because you will miss cases of homicide where the body has been disposed in the water as a means of concealing the death. 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 hou...