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Forensic question: What does it mean when they say it appears he was dumped? How can they tell he didn't just fall into the street? Is there some particular injury, or something?
That's a good question, but I would guess that there might have been lividity patterns, indicating that he was lying in two different positions at different times after his death.
For those unfamiliar with this term, lividity is the pooling of blood into the lowest areas of the body after death. If a body's position is changed in the hours after death, patterns indicating the previous locations of pooling will remain after the blood pools into different locations on the body.