The victim was found
on the rocks |
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underneath the New River
Gorge Bridge. |
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Slanted temporal bone, |
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prominent nasal spine, |
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and the ectocrancial
suture closure indicate |
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the decedent is male,
late 30s, |
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early 40s. |
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Nice call. |
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The way he's broken up, |
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I'd have ID'd him
as Humpty Dumpty. |
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The only fracturing
I've seen like this |
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is from a skydiver |
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whose chute
didn't open. |
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The New River Gorge Bridge. |
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Ah, that thing
is over |
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876 feet high. |
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We could be looking
at a suicide. |
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He's crawling with insects, |
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so time of death
should be simple. |
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I'd say it looks like
maybe five or six days. |
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I have enough tissue
for DNA and a tox screen. |
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