Word: asphyxia
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...quite possible that Woolmer's death, caused according to the pathologist "due to asphyxia as a result of manual strangulation," is completely unrelated to cricket. Jamaica has one of the highest rates of murder in the world. But the hotel the team was staying in was well protected, and Jamaican police say there was no sign of forced entry. They have fingerprinted and questioned Pakistan's players and support staff, as well as hotel staff, and are studying videotapes from the hotel's security cameras. The tragedy of this incredible tale is not only that Woolmer is dead, but that...
...outside the face-painting tent. “This is my first time [in Salem]. Thought I’d get a little history in—witch trials and everything,” he says as he watches a friend get her face painted a flattering shade of asphyxia-blue. The face painting racket is at a height of popularity, with several competing tents. One specializes in painting wounds on customers. Seeing people walk by with caked blood on their faces no longer seems weird after the first two or three times...
...died later at the hospital. The autopsy found bruises and scratches from blunt-force trauma to his face, neck and torso. "He was essentially beaten from the top of his head down to his ankles," says Kent Spence, his mother's attorney. "He died of positional and compressional asphyxia." The autopsy found traces of marijuana and cocaine in his system, but not enough to explain his outburst, Spence says. Though the coroner ruled the death a homicide because Burton died at the hands of others, federal prosecutors say they cannot prove criminal intent. Yet many questions remain: What was wrong...
This June, Melissa Drexler of Ocean County, N.J. was charged with murder when, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer, an autopsy found that her six-pound baby boy had "died from asphyxia due to manual strangulation or obstruction of the mouth or nose." In the proceeding investigation it was revealed that Drexler had given birth to the baby at her high school prom and then disposed of him in the trash...
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