courtneyb
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I understand the whole heart stopping circulation etc just trying to figure out if it would still show up on a toxic level in the hair if it was injected after the fact. Sorry to sound so silly and grasping at straws. This case and its dynamics are sad. I hope they get justice for AJ someone needs to step forward.
No, it would not show up in the hair without being circulated through the system. It would be obvious that it was postmortem because it would show extremely high levels in the blood in the area it was injected into, but would not show in the liver, where it is metabolized, and would still be in its original, unmetabolized state.
ETA... It would just sit where it was injected, possibly just leak out mostly, because of the lack of blood pressure. But what did stay in would cause super high levels right at the injection site, and no trace in blood samples taken from other sites. They take samples from multiple sites for this very reason.