CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
After the police had photographed Francis’s body, clothed and unclothed, along with height and weight details; all garments were collected and itemised for trace evidence.
After his big toe had been tagged, his body was slid into the police morgue refrigerator while a pretty crime lab technician named Sally, who’d just come on shift, pencilled in the work schedule for the autopsy.
Having been pronounced dead at the scene of the suicide by the ambulance team, Francis’s body had shut down from the injuries of the fall with no heart rhythm on any of the monitors after failed cardiopulmonary. Then later unbeknown to medical staff, he experienced an autoresuscitation. A spontaneous return of circulation to the heart through a build-up of released chest pressure. Although rar
