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Needed to pay. >> clayton kerr confessed to police that he shot and buried roy jeffries because, he said, jeffries had made a pass at his girlfriend. he then led police to the shallow grave where the two detectives on the case, as well as county coroner bill lee, battled frigid temperatures and frozen ground to dig up the body. >> there's a hand. >> yes. >> right lung, 600. >> in kentucky, dr. tracey corey, the chief medical examiner, and her staff, do autopsies to determine the cause for all suspicious and unexplained deaths. but except for mass disasters, they generally don't go to death sce...

Confession, that jacket is what made him snap on the day of the murder. >> he was wearing the same clothes he was wearing whenever he made those comments. >> the same clothes jeffries had worn weeks before when he supposedly flirted with kerr's girlfriend. >> there's a hand. >> and finally, a body. >> right here. >> roy jeffries' body. >> we're just careful going around the perimeter not to disturb the body itself. >> tell roy to get the body bag out of the truck. >> so far, the evidence on the scene suggests kerr is telling the truth about the shooting and the burial. but key forensic questio...

>> face shows asymmetry with collapse of the right globe of the eye. there's skull fractures causing the swelling and the discoloration of his eye. >> but the dictation about an injury to the eye prompts one of the detectives to ask about some swelling to jeffries' face. >> are you saying he was hit? >> he wonders if it could have been caused by a fight or a blow to the head which might indicate the killer lied about the incident. >> no, it's probably secondary to the projectile. >> meaning it was the bullet and nothing else that produced skull fractures. >> you can turn him now. thank you. >>...

>> face shows asymmetry with collapse of the right globe of the eye. there's skull fractures causing the swelling and the discoloration of his eye. >> but the dictation about an injury to the eye prompts one of the detectives to ask about some swelling to jeffries' face. >> are you saying he was hit? >> he wonders if it could have been caused by a fight or a blow to the head which might indicate the killer lied about the incident. >> no, it's probably secondary to the projectile. >> meaning it was the bullet and nothing else that produced skull fractures. >> you can turn him now. thank you. >>...

Was jeffries killed instantly, as kerr claimed, or did the killer leave him gasping for life, dying a slow, agonizing death in these lonely woods? >> so we were concerned to know from the medical examiner, was there any sign of whether he would have still been breathing at the time he was put in the ground? >> it's a key issue. because if he buried jeffries alive, kerr's deal with the prosecutor would be null and void. >> but if he lies, they said we just throw it all out and still got all the evidence. >> how unusual is it that a medical examiner's findings in autopsy would affect a plea agre...