Felix Smith Case

Mr. Felix Smith was found deceased at his residence at 225 Frost Avenue at approximately 6:00 am on Friday, June 12, 2012, by his neighbor Christy Moore. Smith is a white male approximately 5’ 9” tall and weighs 147.57 pounds within the normal body mass index to scale. Mr. Smith’s core temperature was 32.6 degrees Celsius taken at 7:00 am. The neighbor, Christy Moore reported she saw the victim alive at 11:00 pm on Thursday, June 11, 2012. Moore claims she left the victims residence at 11:00 pm after eating Chinese food and watching Dexter on television with the victim. She claims she returned to the victim residence the next morning to ask Smith for his assistance starting her car. When he did not answer, she entered the unlocked residence and found the victim deceased at the bottom of the back steps. There is no indication of forced entry; although, the body was found face up and the lividity on the victim’s face and chest indicate he died face down. The victim died at approximately 12:30 am on June 12, 2012, due to blunt force trauma to the back of the head and a broken neck as result of suspicious

Food remains in the stomach for up to two hours after eating before it moves into the small intestine (Dudley, 2016, p. 44). Moore claims she had eaten Chinese food with the victim and watched Dexter on television before leaving at 11:00 pm. The autopsy report indicates the Chinese food found in Mr. Smith’s stomach remained undigested since it had not moved into the small intestines. The receipt from King Wok indicates the food was sent out for delivery around 6:00 pm on Thursday, June 11. However, this does not mean that Mr. Smith consumed the Chinese’s food shortly after delivery as much as it provides a two-hour window from the time Smith had eaten until his