looking at the crime scene. i radioed sergeant koch lee. reporter: furtado s partner kicked in the door, and saw a woman stabbed to death. furtado never saw anything like it and was hit by a wave of fearsome oceans. from shock to awe to frightened. that s how it went. the police training then kicked in. reporter: adrenaline surging, the cops pull their weapons. our thought was to draw our weapon with our safety. so we proceeded to clear the house with weapons drawn. reporter: it was all clear. but horrifying. there were signs of a struggle. blood in a bedroom and in a living room by the body. officer furtado radioed in. i made the comments, just get here. reporter: it was furtado s first homicide. but if he was a stranger to homicide, so is nantucket. there hadn t been a murder on
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a woman stabbed to death. furtado had never seen anything like it, and was hit by a wave of fierce emotions. from shock to awe to frightened, that s pretty much how it went. then the police training kicked in. adrenaline surging, the cops pulled their weapons. our immediate thought was to draw our weapon for our safety. so with weapons drawn, we proceeded to clear the house. it was all-clear, but horrifying. there were signs of a struggle. blood in a bedroom. and in the living room by the body. officer furtado radioed in. i, i made the comments, just get here. it was furtado s first homicide. but if he was a stranger to homicide, so was nantucket. there hadn t been a murder on the island for two decades. it doesn t happen here. it can t happen here. and that was kind of the way it was, up until that day. her name was elizabeth
of hemorrhaging and bleeding around there. i m going to assume that was in there. without the lawyers suspicious and advisor suspicious is that this number of fractures in the neck around the thyroid and the cartilage in the other one over here around the adam s apple, those three taken together based on five studies i looked out around the world come anywhere between 1% to 16% likelihood and hanging. and that is not high. the question is, how do they know it s suicide? with they were a suicide note, people around that were after him, signs of a struggle. that s presumably already taken into account. i think when she comes out with that pronouncement, i m inclined to believe it because. sandra: wouldn t there be a sign of struggle with the laceration, bruising? if this was a suffocation, of course you would see bruising
suicide by hanging. it they are not ruling out the hanging as a cover-up for murder. let s bring in a professor of medicine at nyu medical center and a fox news contributor. could the medical examiner have it wrong? sander was bringing up a point of the brick that i want to start off with his he is really basically putting the whole reputation on the line and i m going to assume that we haven t seen the official autopsy report but i m going to assume she is looked over the body and hasn t seen signs of a struggle, hasn t seen signs of an attack, checked for an inside source and i know the fractures of the neck were definitely at the time of death not previously from that prior, it s not that the cellmate attacked him and led to that. but there s also the issue that in the strangulation rather than a hanging, you would see a lot