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There's so many, sort of, strands of, sort of, scientific evidence that you can bring to remains. You know, what are the marks on the bones? What’s the sort of weapon that would make that sort of mark? And how does that fit in with what we know about the victim at the time?
A closer look at the injuries could reveal how Loveless was killed and perhaps the type of person who killed him. Dr. Amy Michael is a biological anthropologist and an expert on trauma.
We can't tell how Loveless died, but what does the trauma tell us about what happened to him?
You know, in this case, the trauma was not a slam dunk. But it does give us some interesting postmortem information. And so there are a number of clues here. We do see cuts on the two largest bones of the leg, the femur, and then also on the humerus. And you can see the perpetrator chose to go right through the mine shaft, for the most part on both of those bones.
Now, that strikes me as odd.
Certainly, going through the joints would be a lot easier. You're not cutting through bone or cutting through your cartilage and tissues, of course. But I don't know if we're dealing with a perpetrator who knew much about anatomy, because certainly this was difficult to do.
The killer was no skilled butcher or surgeon. And more details of what happened during Lovelace's dismemberment are soon revealed.
There's some striations on the inside of one of the bones.
What we're seeing here is very indicative of like a saw, used by hand. So as the perpetrator was moving that saw through the bone, that's going to leave the striations on the cortex of the bone like that.
Yeah.
The striations say something else, too.
Well, it's pretty apparent that he was on his back and the cuts were coming anterior to posterior.
Finally, the trauma markings reveal one more piece of evidence.
So, if you hand me that distal femur right there. So, it looks quite different. We get some fracturing.
That's blunt force trauma. Something like that.
So, this could be an axe?
Sure. An axe makes a chopping wound.
An axe, the exact same weapon used to kill the victim's wife, Agnes. Could the same killer be responsible for both of their deaths?
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