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Dr. Robert Crosslin

Dr. Robert Crossland is a retired consultant physician, former community coroner for 23 years on Salt Spring Island, BC, and author of "Death Calls: A Coroner's Memoir."

Jun 5, 2026

16:13
In Curly's case, it's consistent with him dying exactly where he falls, face down.
16:19
So you can tell from this that the person died on their lying face down and the pits of blood trickle down and discolor the skin so that it's bluish.
16:34
Now, if somebody comes along after somebody has died and lying there for a couple of hours, if they then move the body, that lividity will stay.
16:45
So when you examine a body, you can see just where he died.
16:49
The lividity is an important circumstance when you're reporting on a death.
16:55
It tells you that when he was murdered, he fell face down.
21:41
Each one enters her chest.
21:44
The upper one was also very forceful because it cut right through the third rib and then perforated the lung and went all the way to something called the hilum, and the hilum is where the windpipe comes down and splits to one branch to the right lung and one branch to the left lung, and right behind it are all the major blood vessels.

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