By all accounts these are the signs of strangulation not suicide. That's what the numbers are telling us. Now you got this one thing you are clinging to: two marks! two marks!
If they're reporting on the hyoid bone already, they'd probably be reporting a bonus murder set of mark on his neck. And not just that, but the evidence of posthumous hanging should be apparent. The body doesn't just freeze in time when it dies.
Well, if he was strangled, breaking his hyoid bone, and then he was hung from his neck to look like a suicide, there would be two distinct instances of trauma, one that killed him, and one from after he died. So instead of getting crazy, I'm going with him breaking his hyoid bone when he hung himself.
Or...... that is precisely why he was able to generate enough torque in his gymnastic lunge off the bed. If he had any experience off of a high dive, he could do it
Sauce?
Nah, eat it dry.
I'm making assumptions that strangulation would leave evidence (in this case, you already have the broken hyoid which is consistent with both strangulation and hanging), and that hanging would also leave evidence, and that medical examiners could tell the difference between a lethal hanging and a hanging that was arranged after a death by strangulation.
Your entire approach relies on the "benefit of the doubt"
Dusty old bones, full of green dust
No, my approach relies on all of the evidence pointing in a certain direction. The knife I slammed in the utterly childish "strangulation + arranged posthumous hanging" theory is just a bonus.
You have a very small audience but go ahead and give yourself a pat on the back.
The officials have the advantage of having the requisite evidence and expertise here. Also, all of the evidence is consistent with a suicide by hanging. I'm confident in this investigation in particular though, as the AG is white-hot-mad and breathing fire down their necks.
Yeah, the AG.....
