Sometimes, when I’m watching true crime, they will say something like “the victim was struck 33 times with a hammer,” or “41 times with an axe,” etc. If it’s all in the same place, how do they maintain an accurate count? Wouldn’t it all be mush? How can they be exact?
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Often they aren’t as exact as these shows portrait it. Often they can only say “lots of blunt violence”. Sometimes they can deduce a number of hits by cutting marks since not every hit will be in the exact same angle (so each individual carve in a bone means at least one hit). That is often not a guarantee though, more the examiners best guess based on what he saw.
The exact number of hits doesn’t matter, but it’s a big difference if it’s 3 or 30 hits since you can deduce how much time the murderer had, and that he was serious about making it deadly.
Sometimes, when I’m watching true crime, they will say something like “the victim was struck 33 times with a hammer,” or “41 times with an axe,” etc. If it’s all in the same place, how do they maintain an accurate count? Wouldn’t it all be mush? How can they be exact?
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Often they aren’t as exact as these shows portrait it. Often they can only say “lots of blunt violence”. Sometimes they can deduce a number of hits by cutting marks since not every hit will be in the exact same angle (so each individual carve in a bone means at least one hit). That is often not a guarantee though, more the examiners best guess based on what he saw.
The exact number of hits doesn’t matter, but it’s a big difference if it’s 3 or 30 hits since you can deduce how much time the murderer had, and that he was serious about making it deadly.
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