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Was jeffries buried alive? when it comes, there's no swelling tv music, no dramatic declaration, only a steady stream of diagnostic jargon. >> red, pink skin discoloration multilocally and areas of rigor mortis, next. no foreign debris in the upper or lower airways. next. >> that takes care of the voice box and windpipe area. as for the mouth. >> no dirt or foreign debris is present, period. >> no foreign debris anywhere. translation, he did not inhale or swallow any dirt. so jeffries was not buried alive. just to be sure, coroner bill lee asks a follow-up question. >> he was dead. well, he wa...

Just because, kerr said, jeffries had made a pass at his girlfriend. >> he tried to hit on her, and he said that he had had dreams about her and they were good dreams. >> go and get a body bag and take this down there. >> it's early tuesday morning, and kerr already has shown police where he says he buried roy's body. in the woods behind his family's home. then he was led off the property to go to jail. moving in one direction while coroner bill lee, his deputy and two detectives, are now marching the other way. back into the woods. if kerr is telling the truth, the investigators will provide ...

Three-year sentence, but it could have been worse. >> stomach contains approximately -- >> if the medical examiner had determined jeffries had been buried alive, kerr would have faced murder charges and meeks complicity to murder. >> the upper airway is clear of foreign debris. >> but that's not what she found. >> because of the autopsy, i can tell you that he was dead before he went into the shallow grave. >> inside that grave, the freezing temperatures slowed decomposition as the medical examiner had discovered at autopsy. so roy's body was in better condition than would have been expected a...

Tracey corey will try to figure them out in autopsy. 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 ex...

That i was a bad man, and i 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 gen...