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Friends, family and most importantly by a star witness. >> my opinion is that the manner of death is homicide. >> reporter: the doctor, famous forensic pathologist, told jurors of crime scene spoke of a murder, not an accident. >> if a person falls accidentally, the individual will be within a couple of feet of the base of the building. >> reporter: that didn't happen in the case of jody. her body landed 50 feet out from the top of the cliff. and 30 feet to the north. >> she had to have been propelled from that point. >> reporter: jody had to have been thrown or pushed to her death, he said. a...

>> in terms of hard evidence, it had nothing new. >> reporter: the prosecutor did have someone new. a famous name to join the investigation into jody's death. dr. michael bodden, a world renounced forensic pathologist who investigated the death of john f. kennedy and testified at the trial of o.j. simpson. he was about to turn up the heat on a very cold case. >> the doctor has reviewed the evidence and has determined that this could not have been an accidental fall. >> reporter: in december of 2008, detectives paid one more visit to steven. >> they wouldn't tell me what it was for. i had no id...

Here with his assessment is dr. michael baden, leading forensic pathologist. welcome to the set and thanks for joining us. will this health bill make the opioid crisis worse? >> absolutely. we're in a real epidemic, at the beginning, and if we don't do something in treatment, in research, in trying to diminish in the amount of drugs that are being pushed on the public by the pharmaceutical companies and doctors who are not prescribing properly, it'll with be a lot worse next year and the year after. 60,000 deaths are more than all the deaths in afghanistan, vietnam and iraq in the past years. ...

In her coke. but it's speculation. >> but there was no way to prove it. so investigators turned to another set of pictures, the ones taken during donna's autopsy. they were analyzed by forensic pathologist dr. barbara weakley- jones. she noticed two things which were barely mentioned in the original autopsy. wounds on the back of donna's hands, but not on her palms. and her fingernails were broken. >> she is up like this, and she is grabbing hold of the edge, the nails would break off. well the same -- you should then have abrasions on the palm surface of your hands as you're going down, and s...

Tina's parents insisted that her death was in self-defense because she had attacked them with a knife. tina's father was covered in blood and had cuts on his hands which he said were defensive wounds that resulted from his daughter's knife attack. >> when i reviewed a little bit of history i knew at the time, it sounded extremely suspicious to me. >> medical examiners have long referred to the autopsy as the silent witness. a way for the victim to tell her story. things that the suspects in a crime usually leave out. at tina's autopsy, forensic pathologist dr. philip burch started his examinat...