The medical examiner is seized by justice to assess the injuries of victims of aggression or autopsy the bodies to discover the circumstances of their death. During their practice, it may happen that these doctors come across particularly surprising and particularly horrible cases (we have warned you). On Reddit, some have shared a few.
“Slightly overweight man had a heart attack and died on his waterbed “, writes a redditor. The bed burst and the Sun heated the water (it was in Arizona), turning all this beautiful people into a "f***** of stew “.
“I searched the mass grave of a family killed by the Nazis for helping the Resistance “, writes another archaeologist. “Somehow the number of bodies did not match the number of family members sentenced to be executed and buried there ". A forensic bioanalysis followed. "Turns out someone had buried a 13-year-old girl in the early 1980s inside the mass grave to hide the evidence" , continues the researcher. "Why?" Who ? No one knows. His skull is on the shelf in my office right now ". He then specifies that this skull will be used to create a 3D model of the girl's face so that she can one day be identified.
"I worked on a case involving two younger sisters aged thirteen and six, along with their mother and her boyfriend “, can we read here. “The mother was convinced that her daughters were possessed by demons, so she forced them to take bleach baths. When that didn't work, she started making them drink bleach. The older girl knew enough to immediately throw up the bleach. She then sought to drag her sister around the house wherever she could to make her vomit. Eventually, the little girl died “.
According to this story, the mother then cut the girl's body into pieces in front of her older sister, before freezing them and then disposing of them, one way or another. "We were sent to see if we could find the body. Walking into this house the smell of bleach was overwhelming and I still remember all the bleach stains on the mat,” the doctor continues. In the comment thread, he adds that the older sister was eventually placed with another family. And the body of the younger daughter was never found.
“I once came across a paranoid schizophrenic man who forced his elderly mother to eat stones […] to the point where she died “wrote another Redditor. "He eventually explained to the police that he did this to weigh down his mother so God couldn't take her yet “.
"The craziest was a guy who tied a steel cable to a tree, then through the back window of his car before passing it around his neck and start the car “, can we read here. “I was always amazed at how clean it was. Decapitations are normally pretty messy, but this guy's creativity led to an instant and memorable death for those who worked on his case “.
“The most disturbing case I have ever worked on happened five years ago in Manhattan “, writes another redditor. “The corpse of a homeless man was brought to us. He had been stabbed 254 times by weapons of varying sizes. I found small burns in various places, his eyes had been violently gouged out. […] His penis had also been removed and inserted into his anus by means of a wooden instrument” .
For the doctor, a bunch of crazy people would have picked someone no one cared about to do terrible things to them just for fun. According to him, the police would have come to the same conclusion, but no one to his knowledge would have been arrested. "That case kept me up for a few weeks", he said. “Just knowing that there were people in my town who could do something like this for no obvious reason other than entertainment gives me chills.”
