Toltec said:Poor baby....I don't care what the Ramseys say, I would NEVER be able to move on without finding the bast**d who did this!
Notice her hair entangled in the cord? It looks like she was lying on her left side when the cord was placed on her body. The hair from the right side of her head is entangled in a way that suggests the person placed the cord around her neck while she was unconcious.
One thing is certain...JonBenet was not struggling when the cord was placed around her neck.
Toltec,
Yes her hair is mainly tangled on the same side as most of her injuries.
I think that ligature is staging, although Coroner Meyer states that ligature strangulation is a cause of death, unless I heard him state the nylon cord did in court, it could be he thinks some other ligature was applied? This might confirm her lower compressed abrasions as resulting from this initial strangulation e.g. a red turtleneck? This is then replaced by the nylon ligature, which if it was used has done little damage to her internal neck structures, here is the excerpt form the Autopsy Report relating to her neck.
Neck: Dissection of the neck is performed after removal of
the throacoabdominal organs and the brain. The anterior strap
musculature of the neck is serially dissected. Multiple
sections of the sternocleidomastoid muscle disclose no
hemorrhages. Sections of the remainder of the strap
musculature of the neck disclose no evidence of hemorrhage.
Examination of the thyroid cartilage, cricoid cartilage and
hyoid bone disclose no evidence of fracture or hemorrhage.
Multiple cross sections of the tongue disclose no hemorrhage
or traumatic injury. The thyroid gland weights 2 gm and is
normal in appearance. Cut sections are finely lobular and
red-tan. The trachea and larynx are lined by smooth pink-tan
mucosa without intrinsic abnormalities.
So after being strangled to death by that nylon cord Coroner Meyer records there were no internal neck injuries, not even to her underlying skin structures, normally these are damaged by ligature compression.
I am probably being pedantic but in his conclusion Coroner Meyer states.
i.e. asphyxia by strangulation not asphyxia by ligature strangulationCLINICOPATHLOGIC CORRELATION: Cause of death of this six year old
female is asphyxia by strangulation associated with craniocerebral
trauma.
Its likely just a technicality, but who knows?
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