Electronic Kill Machine

Autopsy

The medical examiner, after conducting a rather routine post-mortem autopsy, uncovered nothing out of the ordinary. Marina had apparently fallen down several flights of stairs and, during the process of the fall, sustained multiple injuries that contributed to her death. Among them were "head and neck trauma, facial abrasions, lacerations of the scalp, cervical vertebrae fracture, soft tissue hemorrhage, chest and abdominal trauma, three right rib fractures, five left rib fractures, contusions of the back and extremity contusions."

From the looks of things it appeared that Marina had fallen like a sack of potatoes. Could that many injuries be sustained from one fall?

Apparently so, the medical examiner thought, and wrote off Marina's death as an accident. "The cause of her death was blunt neck trauma," said a police report. "At the time, the manner of her death was ruled an accident."

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1. Payback
2. The Band
3. Norton
4. Best Friend
5. Different
6. Killing 101
7. Evolution of the Perfect Crime
8. Slackers
9. The Neighbor
10. Dead ... Go Home
11. Dark Christmas
12. Phone Call
13. Scratches
14. Alibi
15. Every Detail
16. Set Up
17. Blueprint for Murder
18. Reaction
19. Crime Scene
20. Autopsy
21. The Con
22. The Family
23. Guilt by Association
24. Breakdown
25. Cash Money
26. High
27. Role Playing
28. Gone
29. Little Sis
30. You Did What?
31. Panic
32. Pandora's Box
33. Murderer
34. The Wire
35. The Sweater
36. Murder Redux
37. The Call
38. Misunderstanding
39. Close Call
40. One Last Time
41. Busted
42. Tough Guy
43. The Chosen One
44. Pillow Case
45. Heartless
46. Conclusion
47. Bloody Jog
48. After Words