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"Right. Learn more about petechial hemorrhaging, and about asphyxiation (sp).

Read about congestion and petechial hemorrhaging in the lungs.

Then read JonBenet's autopsy report again. She died from asphyxiation."

I understand. The question I was asking in the post was does petechial hemorrhage observed anywhere OTHER than the white's of the eyes necessarily imply STRANGULATION as the presenting cause of death. Your post seems to imply an affirmative answer. If so, help the rest of us out with a link, or experts reference to that effect. That was basically what I was asking. So far, everything I've researched, including what you recommended, appears to answer the aforementioned question in the negative.

[Miztiki]

"The question I was asking in the post was does petechial hemorrhage observed anywhere OTHER than the white's of the eyes necessarily imply STRANGULATION as the presenting cause of death."

Yes.

Understand, a person can have a blood pressure cuff put on their arm and have petechial hemorrhaging on their arm where the cuff was. Things like that.

But, JonBenet had petechial hemorrhaging on her eyelids (inside and out), on her cheek, around the ligature, and in her lungs. That means she died of strangulation. Those are telltale, classic signs of asphyxiation.