Lynn didn’t really want to see. But now that she had and she’d never unsee it.
“The victim was also stabbed in the stomach and chest several times,” the pathologist continued. “I count ten stab wounds. Some already show signs of scabbing.”
“How did she die?” Lynn heard herself ask although she knew full well from prior interactions with Dr. Z that he would tell her all she needed to know when he was good and ready.
Not well, his light blue eyes, magnified by his glasses, seemed to say as he looked at her.
Not well“If I were to guess, I would say either strangulation or exsanguination,” he said, much more calmly and caringly than Lynn expected him to. “My suspicion is that her heart stopped due to blood loss.”
So Shanna had died slowly. She had died knowing she was going to die. She ha
