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Minkoff:
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Yeah, she was kinda draped over the wheelchair like
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this.
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Det. Sudler:
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Okay. Do you recall what she was wearing.. .the’
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clothing?
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Det. Sudler:
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Okay.
And
you said that she had skin hemorrhages
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on her.
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Minkoff:
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Bru.
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.like bruises.. .skin bruises.
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Det. Sudler:
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Skin bruises?.
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Minkoff:
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We call them purpura.
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Minkoff:
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Which is.. .it’s.. .it’s their. .their.
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.it’s like
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a bruise but it’s blood underneath the skin that’s very superficial. It’s not like a big deep bruise. It’s like a superficial discoloration of the skin and it looks either black or deep purple. Umm...
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Det. Sudler:
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And
that would be umm.. .a symptom of this
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meningococcemia?
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Minkoff:
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Well, meningococcemia is the.. .the most common one
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that does this. There are some other organisms.
Turns out she had a staph sepsis. Uh.
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.but the
basic idealogy is the same. It’s.. .there’s...
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there’s enough bacterial in the blood itself that
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these clumps of bacteria block.
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.you know.
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.they’re
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.they’re so big that when they get to the skin they
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block the capillaries and no blood can go any further.
And
then the capillary; .because it’s not getting any
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blood, starts to leak and actually just leaks blood
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underneath the skin.
And
if you take a cut of that...
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and I think the pathologist did and I don’t know what
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he got of it. Sometimes if you take a.. .like a section
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of that skin or that capillary and you look at it under
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