Dr. Bale does not mince words. "Cause of death is exsanguination secondary to hemothorax and cardiac contusion, leading to pericardial tamponade. In layman's terms: Subject bled into his own chest cavity until the heart could no longer beat."
He was impaled through the rectum with a meat hook and suspended a foot off the ground. Over three days, his captors—including notorious figures like "Mad Sam" DeStefano—shattered his kneecaps with bats, used cattle prods on his genitals, and burned him with blow torches. Discovery: william action jackson autopsy report
Jackson ultimately succumbed to his wounds after approximately three days of sustained physical trauma. In layman's terms: Subject bled into his own
Note: This article is a historically-informed dramatization based on composite autopsy procedures of the late 19th-century American frontier. While "William 'Action' Jackson" is a representative fictional figure for this exercise, the medical and forensic details described (including wound ballistics, hemothorax, and pericardial tamponade) are clinically accurate to period post-mortem reports. in good conscience
"I have halted the autopsy. I cannot, in good conscience, classify this as a natural death. The heart did not fail; it was overwhelmed. The cardiac muscle is hypertrophied to three times normal size, showing signs of micro-fractures consistent with high-velocity impact trauma. But there are no external bruises. It is as if his heart tried to beat its way out of his chest from the inside. I have sent samples to the CDC, but I have been told to cease all investigation immediately. I am burning my notes. This man was not human."