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    1. David Hines‏ @hradzka 15 Aug 2019

      So let's move on to how Jeffrey Epstein died: suicide by hanging. Specifically, what has been reported is that he tied a bedsheet to his neck and kneeled down. This is actually a quite common method. People will hang themselves using a belt and a doorknob.

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    2. David Hines‏ @hradzka 15 Aug 2019

      The person leans into the noose, the noose cuts off the flow of blood and oxygen to the brain, loss of consciousness and death result. That's the mechanism; in comparison to manual strangulation, the level of pressure on the hyoid is much lower.

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    3. David Hines‏ @hradzka 15 Aug 2019

      Hollywood to the contrary, people do not actually need to dangle feet-off-the-floor to hang themselves. (Though in that case, the mechanism is similar.) It's different in a judicial hanging.

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    4. David Hines‏ @hradzka 15 Aug 2019

      A judicial hanging from an official gallows involves a sudden drop. The function of this drop is to break the neck of the condemned person (classically what breaks is the second cervical vertebra).

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    5. David Hines‏ @hradzka 15 Aug 2019

      The fact that Jeffrey Epstein had a broken hyoid is atypical for his kind of hanging, but it's not impossible. It does mean the ME will want to look at the other information very very closely. But WashPo goes further with this, and it's either bad reporting or WTF territory.

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    6. David Hines‏ @hradzka 15 Aug 2019

      David Hines Retweeted The Washington Post

      WashPo says the hyoid was "among the bones broken in Epstein's neck." Which raises the question: well, if that's the case, what other bones were broken?https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1161849020832198657?s=20 …

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      Autopsy finds broken bones in Jeffrey Epstein’s neck, deepening questions around his death https://wapo.st/31E8VeM 
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    7. David Hines‏ @hradzka 15 Aug 2019

      There are not a lot of bones in the neck. You've got the hyoid, and maybe ossified thyroid and cricoid cartilage. Those are delicate, too, and could be fractured in a hanging or by paramedics pulling somebody out of one.

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    8. David Hines‏ @hradzka 15 Aug 2019

      And you've got seven cervical vertebrae. You don't get broken vertebrae from a hanging like Jeffrey Epstein is reported to have committed. If Epstein had any broken verts, that's a different ballgame & would be INSANELY newsworthy, so of course WashPo didn't clearly report it.

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    9. David Hines‏ @hradzka 15 Aug 2019

      My theory, based on several years of professional experience, including dealing with journos in a forensic context: I bet WashPo wrote it down wrong. SOURCE. "The hyoid was broken." JOURNO. "Wtf is that" SOURCE. "It's among the bones in the neck" Something like that.

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    10. Rants Drive Rev  ☯️ 🏴 😻‏ @St_Rev 15 Aug 2019
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      That was my take too -- and I have no qualifications at all!

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 15 Aug 2019
      Replying to @St_Rev @hradzka

      I've read enough science stories that include phrases like "oxygen - a gas found in the upper region of Earth's atmosphere - is increasingly..." and you just KNOW exactly how that all went down "ozone" what's that? "a form of oxygen" got it! that, yes, what @hradzka said

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