The Autopsy of Jane Doe Page #3

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Up north.

Not around here.

Nasal passages,

no sign of inflammation.

No fluid

and no foreign substances

and ear canals are..

Clear.

Oh.

I hadn't expected that.

- Tongue has been...

- severed.

Crudely. Non surgically.

- Well, she could have bitten

it off, you know

she ods on something,

tensed up...

- these aren't bite marks.

See, striations.

Huh?

I've seen something

like this before

about 15 years back.

Human trafficking

around Norfolk.

Two girls

hands and feet

bound tight

to keep them from running.

Cut out their tongues

for making too much noise...

- you think this was some kind

of a prostitution thing?

- Can't rule it out.

Here, she has a molar missing

on the lower left side.

Take some impressions.

- It's definitely

some kind of fabric.

- Bag it.

Send it to the lab.

No external seminal fluid

present.

Give me a swab.

Ah, she's torn up inside.

There are ridges,

grooves in the tissue.

- Abrasions?

- No. Cuts.

Deliberate.

- Severed tongue,

shattered joints

vaginal trauma..

The theory tracks.

- We're barely out

of the external.

We got a ways to go.

We'll now proceed

with the internal examination

starting with the heart

and lungs.

Help me with the block.

- They're not supposed

to bleed like that. Right?

- I've seen it.

But only on a fresh corpse.

An hour dead, maybe two.

It's caused by a build up

of pressure.

- What is that?

Melanoma maybe?

- On the inside?

Possible.

Let's see what the lab

comes back with.

Can you hand me the rib cutters?

Today?

- Sh*t.

- What did you do?

- Oh, I got it.

- I need you to focus here.

- I got it.

- Well, you were right.

Her waist doesn't fit her frame.

It's not congenital.

- Then what is it?

Well, if you wear one

long enough, a corset...

- didn't those go out of style

a couple of hundred years ago?

- The lungs

severely blackened.

- Wouldn't have taken her

for a smoker.

- She could smoke

ten packs a day for 30 years

wouldn't explain this.

- But that's what killed her,

right?

- No, this amount

of lung damage though

I'd expect the body to be

covered in third degree burns.

It's like finding a...

A bullet in the brain

but with no gunshot wound.

Her heart's marked up.

Almost like it's been cut.

- Well, not just her heart.

What do you think that is?

Genetic defect?

- Probably scar tissue.

- Scar tissue?

From what?

- Imagine all this

internal trauma

was reflected externally.

Shattered ankles and wrists

fire-burned lungs,

scarred organs.

What would she look like?

- She'd be mangled.

Disfigured beyond recognition

but she's not.

I mean, how the hell

do you even do this?

- If you wanna kill someone

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