
Close to the Chest
Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes
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Autopsy
The autopsy is so critical in terms of what was the wounding pattern on the entry wound. When these gases go into the body in these contact style shots, those gases have to go somewhere. And there are times when you can get the tearing of the skin as the gases are escaping back out this opening that was just created. Is it possible that a bullet from a revolver in 1889 was constructed differently and spread out more than we're used to? That's something that makes me go pause going, well, yeah, why the chest?
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