The hands were mummified, but after injecting the fingers with a solution that allowed fingerprints be taken it was identified as belonging to Louis Masgay, a Pennsylvania man missing for the past two and a half years. Zugibe examined the internal organs under a microscope, and sure enough, the cellular structure was distorted consistent with prior freezing.
He also believed that the body had been frozen for some time in an attempt to derive an erroneous conclusion as to time of death, probably to help support the killer’s alibi.ĭr. The draping of a woman’s blouse over the bag, for example, declaring the killer’s desire for the body to be found within a specific time frame after it had been left there.
Zugibe suspected the body’s discovery was staged. This body was breaking down in the opposite manner, while the skin was sloughing off the corpse, the internal organs were relatively pristine. Third: Since bacteria are the engines of decomposition, the body breaks down from the inside out, as the gut is the major microbial reservoir. Second: The skin was an odd shade of beige-something he had never seen before. Frederick Zugibe, the medical examiner in Rockland County, New York, opens the bags up he finds the body of a middle-aged white man, around six feet tall and weighing about two-hundred pounds, with a single bullet wound to the back of the head.īased upon his initial inspection he believes the victim to have died two-to-three weeks before, but as he continues his examination several things stand out to make him reassess his initial impression.įirst: As a body decomposes bacteria feed upon the tissue, creating gas that bloats the body.
Beneath the blouse he finds what appears to be a decomposing human body wrapped in several layers of trash bags. September, 1983, a police officer stops to examine a woman’s blouse he finds along the side of the road beside a stone wall. 2021 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award Finalists.
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