At 135cm above the heels, the wound passed right downwards and backwards to penetrate the lung to a depth of 7cm. The wound also penetrated a branch of pulmonary artery within the left lung.
Some random thoughts here, from a severely medically ignorant person:
-- "downwards"? I hope somebody with medical knowledge can chime in here. But - if the wound goes 'downwards' that means the weapon was pointing downwards, doesn't it? Is that a bit weird, where the person impales themselves? I mean, would they not have to somehow move pretty hard toward the weapon to get that 7cm depth, while somehow angling themselves 'upward' at it? idk..
-- 2nd and 3rd ribs - is kind of low? Unless she wanted to die from a punctured lung (omg painful) - If you wanted to die quickly via a single impaled stab wound, wouldn't you try higher - ie, for the heart?
-- Jenny was wearing a t-shirt. It's very unusual for a suicidal stabbing to be done through clothing, so much so that removal of the clothing is a known sign of suicide (rather than homicide where a killer won't go to the trouble). Would this hold true for impalement, I wonder?
-- Would a suicide really hood themselves before throwing themselves on a knife? If it's true that the vast majority of suicidal stabbings remove the clothes over the intended wound site (so they can see what they're doing) then doesn't tying a sheet over one's head kind of make things hard that way?
-- I totally can see now (in my head) how the sheet was... like a sack over head, I think, tied around the neck by the robe cord. Would a suicidal person REALLY neglect to remove their sun hat before doing this?
