There was evidence of eleven distinct injuries that had been deep enough to leave marks on bone. Nine of them were to the head and two of those could have been fatal. The most likely fatal blow was to the base of the back of the king’s head. He had a large, sharp force trauma to the inferior aspect of the skull. A blade had sliced through the bone, laying bare the brain tissue, slashing through the brainstem that controls the autonomic functions of breathing and heartbeat and through the nervous tissue that ran down his crooked spine. The blade left a mark on the inside of the skull on the
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