To be fair, the pathologist is absolutely correct in saying that due to the absence of a body. You can't assume too much.

Like if you walk up to an unconscious patient in a garage, next to a ladder, with an obvious head injury, the natural assumption is that he fell off the latter and hit his head, we need to treat his head injury.

But thats a really dangerous assumption to make. What if something made him fall off of the ladder? What if he had a stroke, fell off the ladder, and the head wound was only superficial? That would completely change your course of treatment.

Same with this guy. He could've been stabbed to death, eviscerated, or had a heart attack, and then been decapitated. Impossible to tell without the body.

No fucking way!

What about that one guy who sewed his head back on. I read it in the National Enquirer so it HAS TO BE true.

>This Mexican practice of chopping heads off really and truly has enriched our culture. Murder used to be a rather boring affair – shootings, mostly. Now we’ve got decapitations. Exciting!