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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
The author, a forensic pathologist, explained the meaning of conflagration, which refers to thermal injuries from a fire. The fact that Mercedes was still alive during part of the fire highlights the horrific nature of her death.
It's actually thermal injuries from fire. This unfortunate young lady was in a car that was burning and she was still alive during part of that time.
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The author, a forensic pathologist, explained the meaning of conflagration, which refers to thermal injuries from a fire. The fact that Mercedes was still alive during part of the fire highlights the horrific nature of her death.
It's actually thermal injuries from fire. This unfortunate young lady was in a car that was burning and she was still alive during part of that time.
This is torture no matter how you look at it.
I'm talking about actually heat. Heat can cause damage as well as actually fire burning the body. This person was on fire part of the time.
She was not alive for very long because there was no discussion of soot in her lungs, but there was soot in her nasal passages. So she would have died from the carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide rather, from the smoke. She would have died relatively quickly from that.