Dr. G: Medical Examiner - Season 3, Episode 9 - Deadly Speeds - Full Episode | Forensic Files

[Music] a young man has a fatal seizure and the hospital believes drugs are to blame
the hospital saying hey he's got the amphetamine his mom says otherwise it was like no you know
no then insights from dr g on how car crashes kill just using the lap belt isn't going to
cut it and and we can get terrible injuries that way and later a small town tale of jealousy and
resentment becomes an investigation into a possible murder did somebody push him did somebody
bop him on the back of the head or did he happen to just fall down the stairs [Music]
altered lives baffling medical mysteries shocking revelations these are the everyday cases of dr g
medical examiner as a mother of two boys dr g knows that every moment with her family
is precious [Music] and one particular case from her days as an me in san antonio texas
stands out as a powerful reminder [Music] an untimely death is always devastating
to the survivors but there's an added poignancy when the cause of death appears to have been
avoidable edward mcduffie a 32 year old cab driver and skateboard enthusiast living in
southwest san antonio was known as a charismatic mentor to local teens he taught young people and he's so
skated and he was a real involved in the community about getting skate parks that are safe you know instead of having
the kids skate on the streets one night after watching tv he complains of chest pains
an hour later he walks into a san antonio hospital while alone and waiting for treatment in
a triage room he suffers a violent seizure and collapses on the floor after being rushed to the or doctors
discover that edward has sustained a myocardial infarction commonly known as a heart attack because
edward is so young and seemingly healthy the hospital and his family are baffled by the sudden attack a few hours
later his mother rushes to his side when i went in he he was already you know in the emergency room in a bed
and on a respirator it took a long time to get his rhythm and that he would probably have brain damage
and i prayed that the brain damage part was not true [Music] friends and family then receive another
shock hospital tests on edward urine reveal traces of an illicit and dangerous stimulant
amphetamine i thought that's totally wrong i said no edward mcduffie never regains
consciousness after a week in a coma he passes away the hospital's final diagnosis a heart
attack likely caused by amphetamine use on the death certificate the cause of death
was going to be heart attack and seizures due to amphetamine abuse it was like no you know no i know that
he didn't you know do that kind of stuff mcduffie's body is delivered to the medical examiner's office
where determining who is right the doctors or the man's grieving mother will be up to dr g okay i'll uh
can you get your blood yet no the bottom line is i really don't know what's going
on and i'm not sure they knew what was going on dr g is all too familiar with drug
related deaths in fact a staggeringly high percentage of all the bodies that enter the bear
county morgue test positive for drugs and alcohol alcohol abuse kills 85 000 americans annually and illicit drug use
causes the deaths of seventeen thousand more but are illicit drugs the cause of edward mcduffie's fatal heart attack
the hospital says yes edward's family says no only dr g scalpel and her examiner's eye can reveal the
truth behind this man's sudden death this is a 30 year old man that you know collapse and goes the er
and they resuscitate him and they say he has an an mi or myocardial infarction at some point
though at some point he starts seizing but they're all blaming this all on amphetamines because they tested his
urine while he was there and he was on amphetamines amphetamine commonly called speed and
its sister drug methamphetamine are highly addictive stimulants that traumatize the central
nervous system it is the number one cause of drug related emergency room visits in the
united states with the stigma of a drug-related death hanging over her son's memory
edward's mother hopes her son's name can be cleared he already died but why you know put a stain on his character
you know my elderly aunt's thinking he was such a nice boy we didn't know he was a drug addict you
know it i was angry deals with wife does this man die suddenly and unexpectedly at the age of 32.
to begin dr g conducts a thorough external exam searching for any evidence that might
indicate drug use such as fresh needle tracks tiny bruises or skin ulcers on the arms or feet
she finds none just looking i mean i don't see any vascular scars on him he doesn't look like he's a big time drug
user you know his mother made the comment if it's in him it was the first time ever
dr g must next look inside the body where other signs of drug abuse might leave some fatal clues
next dr g makes a startling discovery and oh my gosh there we got something here
when dr g medical examiner continues [Music] dr g prepares to begin the internal
examination of a 32 year old man whose fatal heart attack has two competing explanations
the hospital asserts it was caused by an amphetamine overdose his mother says that can't be true now
it's up to dr g to discover whether edward mcduffie is a victim of bad health or a bad decision this could be a drug
overdose this would be a stroke in his head it could be heart disease we're going to have to look at
our drug tests and kind of have to wait to put this one together it's not a classic amphetamine overdose
because those people tend to have really high body temperatures and start to seize but
the thing is they're attributing everything to this amphetamine and all we've got is a
positive urine so i really think we need to look at his heart and look at his brain
and see after making the y incision dr g inspects each of edward's organs and takes samples of body fluids
she is particularly interested in examining edward's heart amphetamines can elevate the blood
pressure to dangerous levels which can lead to a rapid irregular heartbeat she cracks open the ribs to remove and
weigh edward's heart and what she finds is a seriously damaged organ his heart's enlarged a normal heart for
a young man like this should be and you know he's not that big a guy it should be maybe 320 350
grams and this heart weighs 470 grams oh you know a lot his heart has a massively enlarged
left ventricle which could be a sign of chronic amphetamine abuse or heart disease
a lot of times we see that with high blood pressure because the left side has to work harder
he does have some natural disease here edward mcduffie was a victim of high blood pressure
unusual in someone his age she wonders if this elevated blood pressure is due to chronic amphetamine abuse
and if this could have led to his heart attack to find the answer she must cut open the
heart to look for damage inside the blood vessels that supply the organ this is an artery one of the main
arteries that supplies blood and oxygen to the heart muscle comes right off the aorta
it's coming down now when that gets clogged that part of the heart can't get the blood and the
oxygen danny do we have a little tiny uh probe then dr g makes a surprising discovery
oh my gosh there we got something here and this little fella he actually has a little clot
you really see the end of that blood clot here this is a clot that caused this heart
attack because it he only had a pinpoint opening remaining and then he's got a little
clot there he had severe narrowing to the coronary artery the blood vessel that supplied the blood and oxygen
this discovery of atherosclerosis suggests that the hospital was wrong edward had a defect in his heart a
narrowed artery blocked by a blood clot caused this young man's heart attack this chronic condition had caused high
blood pressure and other minor symptoms in the past that it's simply been ignored that's not
going to happen overnight with amphetamine so we knew that he had natural disease
but what about his positive tests for amphetamines at the hospital to solve the riddle dr g has her
technicians locate the original week old urine sample we have a sample of urine that they saved
from the day he came in and we're gonna recheck that for amphetamine and then she calls edward's mom to find
out more about his medical history what she learns corresponds to the conditions she observed in his body
sometimes you have to listen to the family because we do we're the ones that that know our history we have a family
history of young young people having heart attacks and and some of them dying you know from the first heart
attack what's more edward had complained to his mother of chest pains and she'd urged him to seek
medical care his mother had suggested he go to the doctor but he kind of was ignoring his symptoms his autopsy
and his history clearly point to heart attack and when the urine test results come back dr g knows she's got the final
piece of evidence in her hand we retested that urine and it was negative for amphetamine
edward's mom was right all along how could a hospital make such a mistake the hospital screen sometimes cannot
distinguish between the stimulants and some cold medicines and amphetamines hospital staff may have
made a hurried assumption in an emergency with her autopsy in the test results dr g can now
reconstruct the series of events that led to edward mcduffie's death he'd been having chest pains and had
been kind of blowing it off i think a lot of young men would do the pain is caused by an almost completely
blocked coronary artery that prevents blood from reaching his heart muscle one night the pain is too intense to
ignore and he goes to the hospital on admission he's given routine tests he came into the hospital and uh tested
positive on a urine screen for amphetamines edward's chest pain is due to a blood
clot that is formed where plaque ruptured into his artery the clot blocks his already narrowed
artery that is now struggling to fuel his heart muscle the heart muscle begins to die and
edward goes into cardiac arrest doctors spring into action and they brought his heart rate
back i had then went into an arrhythmia but at some point he falls off a gurney and then starts having seizures
edward's seizures occur because his brain has been without oxygen for so long but the hospital believes the seizures
are caused by amphetamines but it seemed like they really jumped to the conclusion right from the beginning
as soon as they saw the amphetamine screen was positive in the urine that all his problems seemed
to be due to that when edward's mother arrives doctors have restarted his heart but because his brain is irrevocably
damaged from lack of oxygen he remains in a coma then they did the eegs and stuff and
well you know you never lose hope but things happened that and that was um i believe part of you know the plan you
know the big plan the big picture you know that god has for all of us after a week with no
improvement edward mcduffie dies rosa is forced to accept the loss of her son but she cannot accept the hospital's
explanation so she is very grateful that dr g's findings have confirmed what she knew in her
heart all along i think she's 7 cent i thank god that she decided to really look into it
when dr g called me and said that it was that it was not the case it was like it just makes all the
difference in the world to me well in this case the mother knew her son and he didn't use amphetamines
i knew i was right i knew my son next after thousands of autopsies dr g has learned a thing or two about car
wrecks well i mean i've learned a lot these are dr g's pearls of wisdom that i've
learned in the morgue her insights into how accidents on the road can kill when dr g medical examiner continues
saturday 2 a.m [Music] a young driver heads home from a night of drinking his blood alcohol level is at 0.16
twice the legal limit in florida the road markings are hard to follow he's drifting between lanes
20 miles over the speed limit and off to sleep every 15 minutes somewhere in the united
states a car accident kills for the victim's loved ones each crash is a catastrophic
personal tragedy but there are some who must tackle those tragedies from a professional point of view
one two three saturday morning and we've got three auto accidents that's typical every day we come down
here and we're looking at that at the orange osceola county medical examiner's office
in florida about one in every five cases is from a car crash we're gonna have to look at a spinal
cord i have to kind of piece all the parts of the puzzle together with to come up with what happened
bad weather high speeds failing breaks alcohol heart attacks seizures a suicide wish
a murder attempt every wreck has a story we want to know if it is truly the car accident that killed him
and the final discoveries of both dr g and police investigators can influence insurance claims criminal
charges and even future auto designs a car crash may mean the end to a life but for dr
g it is just the beginning of a new investigation every car accident is a scientific
journey one that begins not in the morgue but out in the field uh all of us told we got a pedestrian
walked across out of the parking lot crossed over the roadway struck by the uh by the station
florida highway patrolmen investigate over 3 200 fatal crash scenes per year one of the
first things they must do with such a scene is sort through the wreckage you have to
switch into uh into the investigative mode and your objective at that point is is to try to help the deceased and be
the mouthpiece for them the highway patrols homicide unit is expertly trained to map a scene
taking critical photographs and measurements the purpose of gathering all the information in the investigation is to
confirm or deny certain things that may have or have not caused the crash things like speed
somebody accelerated through red light we can use that to make the charges for who caused the
crash the skid marks the damage to the vehicles and the gouges on the road all that together will tell us what
happened but to be accurate the investigators have got to move fast a rainy night for example
may wash away portions of a skid mark at times the crash site is spread over hundreds of feet
even the bodies may no longer be in the car sometimes when everybody is killed in a crash and ejected also we
have no idea who's driving we'll seize the entire vehicle and have it taken to the crime lab
and they can use the occupants of the vehicle's clothing to try to match that back to the
driver's seat the seat belt the dash whatever they impacted even their blood to put them in the seats each piece of
evidence helps to get at the truth behind the cause of every accident but nothing leaves the scene until an
investigator from dr g's office gets a first-hand look they can't clear the wreck until my
investigators get there and our responsibility is to go ahead and put the perspective of the
environment surrounding the body so that the doctor knows what what's going to be affecting the body
what kind of vehicle was it was an suv was it a pickup truck it puts the doctor at the scene
all that information arrives with the deceased at the morgue this is a 55 year old struck by a pickup
truck then it's up to the medical examiner to determine the true cause and manner of
death when we hear about someone dying in a car crash it's easy to assume he or she
died from the injuries but in the morgue many autopsies of car crash victims have a multi-layered
mystery to be solved and a lot of people think why bother why bother doing them for example many auto fatalities are
actually the result of natural causes why did his heart stop we don't know yet did he have a natural disease did he
have a stroke did he have a heart attack all of these things we can help answer a
medical examiner must also look for other influences on the driver's body we always draw toxicology ooh nice big
bladder he's been drinking at the party you know at least 40 percent of people who die in traffic accidents
have alcohol in their system the other 60 percent include a few surprises i had a fellow
that a poor thing a bee flew in his cab of his truck and he ended up in an accident
i like the stories putting piece putting the pieces together making a difference in the process dr g
comes face to face with the reality of what a car accident can do to a person's body the most common fatal
wounds just blunt trauma of the head all sorts of type of head injuries followed by multiple internal trauma
when an aorta is totally cut in half when your diaphragms are totally ripped in half and all your abdominal organs
are in your chest looks like a bad horror picture an accident victim's death speaks
volumes to dr g their injuries can also tell her how to avoid ending up in the morgue herself
i mean i've learned a lot these are you know dr g's pearls of wisdom that i've learned in the morgue
and i just use them for my own how i live my life i guess i'll share with you dr g's first pearl of wisdom i
don't speed i see you know a lot of the accidents are caused by excessive speed where the your chance of
dying goes up every 10 miles faster you go exponentially dr g also has a unique take on the improper use of a familiar
safety device the seat belt you've got to use them the way they're constructed putting half the seat belt behind you
not using the harness belt and just using the lap belt isn't going to cut it and and we can get
terrible injuries that way a person's body is at the mercy of inertia when a fast-moving car crashes
with no harness belt the body will hit the wheel or dashboard and suddenly stop while the organs keep moving at 60 miles
per hour what's happening is you're decelerating very quickly and your chest stops but your internal
organs continue and then it tears the anchor point of your aorta you stop quickly but your
internal organs haven't quite kept up the harness seat belt helps to keep the body and organs in sync
and off the dashboard we just recently had one where they they didn't use the seat belt correctly
and it didn't help them often car accident victims are also simply in the wrong place
at the wrong time i never ever stopped my car on the side of a freeway they stopped their car on the freeway to
discuss the accident it's a fender bender and then somebody comes along and rear-ends the cars and somebody gets
killed i've had a officer get killed that way at least two i've had people who have just
stopped to fix the tire get killed that way so i actually had a time where my engine
light went on and i can remember you know stop the car stop the car you shouldn't be driving with the engine
light on you know i think it's my husband's little voice and and i just didn't feel comfortable
stopping the car until on the side of the road until i could get an off ramp because i was not
that engine light wasn't going to kill me at that point but stabbing my car on the side of the road i wasn't so sure
car accidents violent crashes everybody at the scene is affected by it unexpected injuries
what do you think about this break i need to see his foul though wait wait a moment i needed to look at that
and i didn't look at it good he was i was given philosophy shedding new light on life it is very
sad but i have some questions to answer and i don't i have to get past the sad part
pretty fast i need to go change and start work coming up next a suspicious death in a
small town leads dr g down a path of possible homicide did somebody push him did somebody
pop him on the back of the head or did he happen to just fall down the stairs when
dr g medical examiner continues [Music] dr g's next case involves jealousy intrigue and suspicions of murder in
small town america okay well today we've got an interesting case it comes from a rural
area and this man is dead at the bottom of the stairs he's working in kind of an old
historic hotel the case comes from a county nearly 300 miles from the morgue and the decedent's name is alexis jones
a man who had been trying to put the pieces of his life back together after a painful divorce
in communities too small to afford a medical examiner's office coroners investigate unexplained deaths
so i'm the first one that is called out to determine the cause of death or determine whether or not
there's an autopsy that's needed so i'm at her mercy to getting the information according to
the investigation report it all started when a hotel employee noticed something ominous
outside of the manager's living quarters immediately he called shirley williams the local
coroner he actually noticed a pool of blood up underneath the door the person at the
scene said there was blood williams arrives at the hotel to start her investigation
as the caller had reported she finds blood seeping out from under the door leading to the hotel manager's apartment
and when she opens the door she finds his dead body at the bottom of the staircase
he was lying down and there was a garbage around it looked like he was probably either taking garbage out or had fallen
into some garbage uh he is at the bottom of the stairs did he just trip and fall
dr g notes that williams performed a preliminary exam of the body at the scene and carefully reads through her findings
there is a lot of head trauma i mean which would not have been very unusual for someone that had fallen
you know the distance that he had fallen or you know someone that had taken a tumble down in the staircase
at first glance it appears that the manager innocently slept fell down the stairs and banged his head
on something sharp causing the massive bleeding so then why did williams request that dr
g autopsy the body i don't know i don't know what's going on here but as dr g reads on the reasons become
clear upon further inspection of the body williams notices several wounds wounds
she feels could be inconsistent with an accidental fall down the stairs there's blood on his face there's some
swelling in his eye and that made her suspicious suspicious that an assailant may be responsible for
this man's death or was there an altercation was it an accident or was there something just a little bit
more to this that's very unusual to fall down the stairs and die we don't see that very often it's not
common in this case she rightly determined that she needed autopsy i think it's intriguing though that he's
uh he lives there he's the general manager and there's definitely quarreling going on nobody seems to like
the guy suddenly an apparent run-of-the-mill accident has turned into a small-town
murder she wrote and now dr g must try to find evidence to solve the mystery of what
or who killed this 50 year old man did somebody push him did somebody pop him on the back of the head or
did he happen to just fall down the stairs this will be interesting to see if we can figure out what happened to
him [Music] i can see the big old scar going down the center of his chest as dr g begins
the external exam she immediately finds evidence of previous surgeries we undress him and i see a big scar on
his chest going straight down his chest from his kind of the base of his neck all the way
down that usually indicates that he's had heart surgery typically bypass surgery and he's got a matching
scar down his leg so he's it's consistent with that he's had a bypass surgery clearly
joan suffered from heart problems in the past dr g wonders if his weak heart could have
failed again contributing to his death she'll need to wait for the internal autopsy to explore that theory further
but as she continues her external exam dr g finds several other wounds on jones's body that point to foul play
he certainly could have been struggling with somebody he's got the smeared blood on his face i don't
you know could have been the eye could have been from a blow and it certainly has the confusion
abrasion on his back of his hand i mean it could have been a struggle there was also a deep cut on the side of
his head possibly the result of another blow so he hit his head or somebody hit his
head and it's about one and a half inches in length but evidence of violence does not stop
there i also found some little petechiae or broken blood vessels in his conjunctiva
you know we classically we would see that with strangulation but dr g will have to wait for the
internal exam to explore this theory further with all of jones's external injuries
suggesting foul play she prepares the body for the y incision [Music] [Applause]
coming up next shocking internal findings throw the murder investigation for a loop
and he could have died at any moment when dr g medical examiner continues [Music]
we have a lot of activity going on in our work dr g and her mortex prepare the body of
hotel manager alexis jones for the internal exam earlier that morning jones body was
discovered at the historic country hotel where he worked and based on wounds on his body dr g
wonders if he may have been the victim of foul play he certainly could have been struggling with somebody
then midway through the autopsy coroner shirley williams calls dr g from the hotel
she's just uncovered a possible motive for murder according to interviews that williams
conducted with local residents jones was not the most popular man in his community
he'd moved to town just six months earlier and a mere two months later he received a huge promotion they just
made him manager and other people didn't like it he wasn't well liked and he'd been having
some quarreling with some other employees but did they hate him enough to kill him
you know could someone have gotten in there and you know whacked him over the head and then
you know pushed him down the staircase to make things look like an accident i don't know if they're taking justice
in their own hands or not i mean that he was not the man for the job at least in their eyes
dr g has unsubstantiated external evidence and a possible motive that could point
to murder but before she can rule this case a homicide she must find tangible forensic
evidence inside jones's body well dr g opens the body of alexis jones with the standard y
incision cutting through scar tissue on his chest a result of previous bypass surgery to
his heart as a first step she removes his heart 375 for the heart when we look at the
heart first of all we actually see the little bypass we see the blood vessel that has been sown from the aorta to the
coronary artery it looks fine dr g notices that the bypass surgery looks perfect
however she doesn't dismiss jones's heart yet and rightly so when she cuts into another artery that
supplies blood to the organ she makes a grim discovery one of his coronary arteries
was completely narrowed completely occluded he's had a previous heart attack the
whole back of his heart was dead uh and scarred down despite the success of jones bypass surgery
his heart remains hopelessly diseased if you continue to smoke and you continue eat bad and
continue to keep your cholesterol up those the bypass grafts can get narrowed and
thickened just like your regular coronary arteries he could have died at any moment from that diseased heart
it now seems possible that no one assaulted jones and that he simply had a heart attack at
the top of the steps and came tumbling down hitting his head on something sharp along the way
so at this point i don't know but dr g does know how to find out if he suffered a heart attack at the top of the steps
jones's internal wounds from the fall would not bleed this is because wounds only actively
bleed if the heart is pumping blood but if dr g finds a large collection of blood around the wounds
his heart must have been beating when he fell thus ruling out a fatal heart attack at the
top of the steps [Music] looking for signs of internal bleeding dr g's texts now opened
jones's cranium as she removes the brain she makes two critical findings [Music]
this is interesting i reflect the scalp and then i notice there is a lot of contusion or blood
collecting in the scalp itself based on this dr g now knows that jones was bleeding
internally when he fell down the steps this reveals a very important clue about his heart
i can say that that heart was at least still beating when he got the head trauma and that
means he did not die from a heart attack but dr g's next finding is even more revealing
as she looks inside jones skull right away she sees the injury that did kill him a bruise on the
left hand side of his brain the definite bruise he died from the severe head injuries that he received
yet dr g notices that the bruise on his brain is not directly beneath the cut on
jones's scalp an injury that she documented in the external exam i know it's an odd thing the scalp on
the right side has one laceration about a one and a half inches in length lo and behold the contusion is on the
opposite side where there's no trauma over the scalp this type of injury is referred to as a
contra coup literally meaning opposite the blow it occurs when a body is in motion
and the head strikes a hard surface the abrupt impact causes the brain to shift from side to side in the skull
the brain comes back and hits the inside of the skull on the opposite direction yeah this is
interesting often a bruise will develop opposite the site of impact as a result of the
shifting brain as opposed to a blow and you're stationary the contusion is right underneath the
blow the presence of a contra coup on jones's brain indicates that he was moving when he
sustained the injury and provides dr g with the evidence she needs to determine how he died
so at this point i can definitively say that the trauma which is why he died is from a fall and not a blow to the
head coming up next one central question remains now the million-dollar question is was
he pushed okay when dr ge medical examiner [Music] continues [Music] dr g now knows that alexis jones died
from severe cranial injuries after falling down the stairs but because she still hasn't determined if
his fall was an accident the case remains far from closed captioning not of what's available on
but in this case the toxicology report only raises further questions when i get the talks
back uh he ends up having a very elevated blood alcohol of a .22 very highly intoxicated
then dr g's attention is quickly diverted to a far stranger finding jones blood also
contains a large quantity of a chemical called quinine it's typically associated with treating
malaria a potentially fatal mosquito-borne disease found in the tropics and i was like why would he have quinoa
and quinine is a chemical that you uh can use to treat malaria or maybe leg cramps
uh there's not a lot of call for quinine anymore and uh you know i i didn't quite understand
why he'd have that was jones suffering from malaria if so dr g should have picked up on one of the
many physical signs small skin hemorrhages swelling of the brain an enlarged spleen and anemia but jones
exhibits none of these and because malaria is rarely seen in the united states dr g doubts that he was infected with
this disease so what explains the high levels of quinine in jones's blood there is a quinine poisoning and quinine
poisoning is really quite severe there is a whole syndrome of having too much quinine and you
actually get dizzy and nauseated and you can actually lose your eyesight struggling for answers dr g turns to
coroner shirley williams to see if she observed anything at the scene that could shed light
on this strange finding as it turns out williams remembers seeing something during her examination of jones
apartment that could provide an explanation i did notice that there was a bottle of dry gen
and also a bottle of tonic there and they were open while quinine is used for treating leg cramps and malaria in
third world countries it is best known stateside as an ingredient of tonic water
he was really drinking and his blood alcohol was high and his quinine level was high so he liked his gin and
tonic with a lack of evidence supporting foul play at the hands of jones fellow hotel
workers and no forensic evidence that he had a fatal heart attack prior to falling down the stairs dr g
can now replay what likely happened to alexis jones on the night of his death perhaps celebrating his promotion to
manager or may be stressed about another day of bitter quarreling among his colleagues
jones indulges heavily in his favorite cocktail gin and tonic we know that he was
drinking his gin and tonic prior to going downstairs we know he's highly intoxicated
now suffering from impaired balance and blurred vision jones inexplicably makes a fatal
decision to take his trash out the effects of the alcohol in his system cause him to
stumble on the steps he falls down the stairs hits his head very badly as jones falls he lacerates the right
side of his skull on the steps the impact causes his brain to bounce back and forth
slamming against the opposite side of his skull as a result of the trauma his brain
begins to bleed and to swell after just a few minutes oxygen can no longer reach his damaged brain
and he dies he died from the severe head injuries that he received dr g assures shirley williams that she
found no evidence that jones was murdered they ruled it as an accident so we went ahead and
just closed our files but while the case is officially closed at the morgue an unsettling incident a year later
causes shirley's town to relive the tragedy all over again wasn't too long after that then the next
hotel manager shows up dead this death was eventually ruled a suicide but shirley williams remains astonished
by the coincidence i mean what are the odds in such a small community that two people in the same position
would show up dead without a confession or a witness dr g stands by her ruling and the case remains filed as accidental
i'll never prove that he wasn't pushed we don't well unless we have a witness now
if someone you know years from now comes and says you know i pushed him down the
stairs and i pushed him on purpose there's nothing i could say it's just one more tragic accident
one more life cut short that dr g sees every day in the morgue being in the morgue you realize you have a finite
amount of time here on earth when you face that every day to realize that hourglass is
constantly moving you don't turn it over in mid-stream and you gotta go and you try to find happiness in life

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Brief Summary

Dr. G investigates a heart attack, car accidents, and a suspicious death revealing complex truths behind each case.

Key points

A Fatal Seizure. A young man suffers a fatal seizure, leading to a shocking investigation.
The Mystery of Edward McDuffie. Dr. G investigates the death of Edward McDuffie, a young cab driver with a mysterious heart attack.
The Truth Behind the Diagnosis. Dr. G uncovers the truth about Edward's death, challenging the hospital's diagnosis of drug use.
A Mother's Grief. Edward's mother struggles with the hospital's explanation for her son's death.
Dr. G's Insights on Car Accidents. Dr. G shares her wisdom on how car accidents can be prevented.
Suspicious Death Investigation. A suspicious death in a small town leads Dr. G down a path of possible homicide.

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