Stomach contents from autopsy
The stomach contains approximately500 ml of thick, tan chyme with masticated fragments of green vegetable matter. The gastric andduodenal mucosae are intact and unremarkable. The small and large intestines and appendix areunremarkable to inspection and palpation.
Regarding the night of the murder and in an effort to figure what happened between the arrival of the senior martens at 20.30 and Jason's death I am putting forward some links to forensics on the amount of time food remains in the stomach while the patient is alive. Some of these contradict others but some are quite interesting
http://www.mitchpileggi.net/Deep_Background/resources/forensics/bodies.htm 'a light meal is out of the stomach in 60-90 minutes. Remember, no digestion or changes take place following death - to the movement of gastric contents to the duodenum.
This is interesting because it it would suggest Jason consumed food less than an hour before he died.!!! Maybe much less than an hour..
It suggests he ate some food very very late at night and it suggests equally that he may have died much earlier than we have been informed.
http://intranet.tdmu.edu.ua/data/ka...tion of early and late changes in a body..htm
this is a very comprehensive lecture, in it he states that tea/coffee(chyme) leaves the stomach in 15-20 minutes. Its worth a read though its long.
If we are to conclude Jason had food and drink LESS than 15 minutes before he died, are we to assume he ate and drank while naked, or was he undressed following his murder (i know miss marple would have a shot of sharon running through the golf course with a black bag of bloody clothes at this point, but we have no evidence she did anything at all)
or he was murdered immediately after eating or during eating??