Question

The Case of the Murdered Midwife Part I: The Investigation It's your first day shadowing a detective, and already it's been interesting...if you can call the murder of a young woman interesting. You've been trying to detach yourself by reading the file, but you have interviews later this morning and you're nervous. Going back to the file, you jot down some notes on what you know so far. Meleea was a 35-year-old nurse midwife with over ten years' experience delivering babies both in hospitals, as well as in homes when risk for complications were low. She was healthy; her only medical condition was an allergy to bee stings. The body was discovered by her boyfriend when he came over for a planned dinner. The dinner - spaghetti - was laid out, but no cooking had begun. There was also a plate of cupcakes, with a bite out of only one of them. The boyfriend said Meleea had not mentioned feeling unwell when they spoke earlier in the day. She was, however, tired, and understandably upset about a long birth she had assisted with where a mother had died in childbirth. The medical examiner did not have results yet, so you sketch out some questions you have for the interviewees. Who would you interview, and what would you ask? INSERT ANSWER Do you have any hypotheses about what happened to Meleea? Write at least one or two possibilities. INSERT ANSWER Part II: The Medical Examiner's Report You now have the medical examiner's (ME) report. The ME believes she died of asphyxiation. You read that there were no marks on the body, including bee stings. She was healthy, but tissue analysis showed some bizarre results. There was tissue death, but not only that, microscopic analysis showed mitochondrial damage. In addition, there were high levels of oxygen in all tissues examined. Based on the above, what cellular process might have been interrupted? Support your answer with the information above and knowledge gained in this module. Cite sources using APA Style. INSERT ANSWER Are there any conflicting pieces of information in the above? If so, what are they? INSERT ANSWER

Answer 1

Before medical investigation reports-

1I would prefer to as about their relationship ,is there was any arguments recently

2. Did she share anything about any arguments or stress with collegues or neighbours or anything important.

Initial hypothesis could be-

1 death due to suicide

2) dead due to major organ failure

3) murder by someone closeby

After medical investigation reports-

Death could be due to inflammatory response which cause excessive damage to mitochondria and leads to complete breakdown of respiration process due to loss of krebs cycle and electron transport complex.

Conflicting piece of information is that she is sensitive against bee sting that could cause inflammatory response but there was no sign of biting bees on her body.

This means that there could be presence of aspergillus or bee on cupcake which produces toxin and that leads to inflammatory response and leads to asphyxiation and finally death of Meleea.

Hope it's clear..thanks