Posted by Captain Eela Dasca (Lt. Governor) in Morgue - TMODJ (PRISM)

Posted by Civilian Yavia Crockett (Nurse - Sacred Heart Hospital) in Morgue - TMODJ (PRISM)
Lail and his assistant appeared in the morgue in a swirl of lights and transferred Jones’ body to a table. “Prepare the autopsy equipment Ms Urel. I’m going to get changed and scrub.” He exited the main area and went to the locker room to change into scrubs.

He returned shortly and they removed Jones from the protective coverings. “I’ve started the file for Mr Jones, Dr.” Lial nodded, “Thank you Urel. Let’s get started.” They began with a basic full body scan and then organic and inorganic particular scans and collected anything the computer identified. Then they went over the body by hand and collected anything else. Then they removed his clothing, bagged and tagged it, and then went through the process again. Taking scrapings from under his nails, and swabs of the cuts and bruises, inside his mouth, ears, and nose. The prepped all these for analysis by the lab later.

Hikya Lail, medical examiner

As with the scan at the scene, the injuries were all noted and in more detail:

• fractures to left side of the mandible, right zygomatic, right maxilla
• particulate in laceration on right cheek has a tiny piece (2 mm long by 1 mm wide) of leather
• contusion to abdomen with closed fracture (2 cm) to the surface of the fifth right costal cartilage
• spiral fracture of left ulna ( likely because assailant twisted his arm to try to flip him backwards)
• contusions to right hand
• on the lower chest and almost blending into the abdominal contusion is a small and perfectly round contusion from something that might have been a hypo had it been pushed against the skin with great force.

Lial finished the external examination with a detailed description of the decedent’s remains including scars, surgical incisions, medical devices, tattoos, etc.

Then he began the internal exam. Unlike centuries past, new technology didn’t require the complete opening of the body and removal of organs to determine things like weight, size, shape, health, and damage of internal organs.

Tissue samples could be obtained laparoscopically. Blood, body fluid, stomach contents, and tissue samples. He focused particularly on the small round contusion. He took swabs to determine what material touched it, took scans and had the computer render a 3D image of what might have caused it, and then took internal tissue samples to see if, it was in fact a hypo of some sort, what may have been injected or removed from Jones’ body.

A subsequent blood tox screen would show Jones had only the barest signs of alcohol in his blood, but there were two very notable toxins that came up:

• 2 mg of anatoxin-a stemming from the cyanobacteria genus Nostoc

• • Lial knew that anatoxin-a was known as Very Fast Death Factor (VFDF). Once injected that dose would have caused twitching, muscle spasms, paralysis, and finally respiratory arrest within minutes. He did further analysis and screenings to determine without doubt that the anatoxin-a was the cause of death or if there were other factors at play.

• an unknown toxin that was flagged from Jones’ skin, specifically the back of his neck. Curiously, it hadn’t penetrated into the blood. The flag generated an alert to both Starfleet Security and the CIA

• • the unknown toxin wasn’t in his blood, which means that it wasn’t present before time of death. This substance was applied after Jones had died. Lial could only surmise that it was in an attempt to cover up the real cause or, often in the case of homicide, frame someone else.

-traces of oil where the various contusions were there were larger contusions (except the round one on his chest) that was commonly exuded from ukumien leather; ukumiens are small animals with skins prized for leather due to its sturdy but soft structure.

~Eela Dasca

• • Traces of oil were on the various contusions covering Jones body except the round one on his chest. After some research Lial determined that the oil was just a remnant off what the assailant was wearing on their hand when they struck Jones. They were wearing ukumien leather gloves, which was confirmed by the tiny piece of leather embedded in the one cut on Jones’s face. Lial determined that the oil traces came off the glove that was on the hand the struck Jones. That it was oil from the gloves confirms this but also confirms that the same gloves left the remnant. So it’s all traceable. The leather was an unusual type and quite expensive. It was not something just anyone would be wearing. Certainly not to beat the crap out of someone.

Lial compiled the information and submitted it to his growing postmortem report.

Lial, medical examiner