Can Sandra Birchmore’s Broken Neck Bone Tell a Jury How She Died?

Matthew Farwell’s bone expert gave the jury her numbers on November 2nd, and prosecutors asked where they’ve ever applied to someone Sandra Birchmore’s age. Heather Garvin testified a seated hanging puts seventeen to thirty-two percent of body weight on the strap. Sandra’s recorded weight was 161 pounds. Garvin cited a 2013 study putting the force needed to break a hyoid at about seven pounds. Garvin then agreed broken hyoids turn up more often in strangulations than hangings, agreed Sandra’s hyoid hadn’t fused and was more flexible, and agreed none of her studies look at a seated hanging in a person under forty. Asked to find one, she said she was having a difficult time locating it. Kentucky’s chief medical examiner and a forensic science professor from Maine testified too, both aimed at Dr. William Smock, the prosecution’s expert on how Sandra died. The defense expects to rest Wednesday, November 4th.

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