But where where his legs and feet during this time? Are you saying this window would have to be waist high or so? How would he lift his self up so high that he got stuck? Either he just stood up and opened the window and tried to climb in, or he had to jump up to the window and hoist his entire body weight in just enough to get stuck, but why wouldn't he be able to back out? Or was there an object outside the window that he used to climb on to get in the window? Just curious how this plays out. TIA..
A person almost has to have experience going in through a window or exiting through a window if it makes no sense when reading. I used to be the family member who went into my childhood home through an unlocked window ( the screens were locked back then) with a bit of my daddy's help if we were locked out, so I know how easy this is to do right, and how easy it would be to go very badly.
A person's correct natural tendency is to go in head first because we need to see where we're going, we use our hands and arms to help steady us, and our heads weigh a lot more than our feet, thus there is a natural gravity factor helping them slide in. Also, we are more protective of our head than our feet, so you plant your upper body where you want it to be first, not hanging out. A familiar correlation is that the ideal position for a baby to be born is head first because the head weighs more and helps propel the body towards the waiting world.
You can duplicate what it's like to go into a room through a window. If you are a healthy person, just go to a ground floor window in your house and open it. Go to a door and walk outside to stand beside the window that's opened. Stick your head and shoulders inside the window to enter your living room or bedroom ( it doesn't matter WHICH room) , then slide your body right on in behind you. You will be going in head first, so will be supporting your weight on your arms until your legs are inside the room too. I'm almost 1oo% sure this is how the victim got STUCK halfway in, halfway out of the window.
He got stuck because his torso girth was larger than he estimated for the window size. The cause of death tells us this exactly. "Mechanical asphyxiation" means no person caused the person to stop breathing, but an object did.
When it's a person choking another, it's termed "manual asphyxiation."
Plainly speaking, he got enough of his body into the window opening ( chest and possibly upper abdomen) to compress his lungs and respiratory muscles so they were SQUEEZED by the window itself, an unmovable object, and he died from lack of respiratory effort.
Smothered.
I don't know if he stood on anything. It doesn't matter, but if he wanted in a window he couldn't reach, then probably. I'd expect a high level of physical fitness due to his career, also.
Negating some of the fitness aspect he had going for him was the wife's narrative that he'd been drinking.
I also think, due to the cause of death, that part of his lower body would have to be outside the window. If his chest and abdomen had FIT, he'd have gone into the bathroom through the opened window.
In order to die of self mechanical asphyxiation, his respiratory effort had to have been cut off completely at some point, and death ensued.
It was a window, the man got stuck and could neither go backwards or forwards, could not take a breath in due to the squeezing action, and accidentally perished.
It is a horrible way to die, but there aren't really any good ways, are there?
I hope this helps. I know it's bizarre to imagine a human shimmying into a window, unless you were your family's " locksmith" as a child. I understand it because I did it so well. I was in gymnastics by age 4. Nurses see or read professional journal articles describing almost everything possible and almost impossible at some point, and it is always very sad. I definitely feel so sorry that this happened to a couple on their 10th anniversary vacation. That he was not found before he asphyxiated.
