I'm not sure I understand what you're saying.
If you took a dead person, someone who had been dead for hours, and hit them hard in the head with a baseball bat, there would be no clotting, right?
So I don't understand what you are saying.
"If you took a dead person, someone who had been dead for hours, and hit them hard in the head with a baseball bat, there would be no clotting, right?"
Agreed. But the problem is that there wouldn't be any blood to start with. If the person is dead there is no bleeding, no hemorrhaging, no brain swelling. All of this requires a warm body. So, she is hit and then blood pools in the BBB, but only a little, and her heart stops before it has time to clot. We're talking less than 10 minutes here. It was probably less than 60 seconds. The head trauma was almost certainly the presenting cause of death. Asphyxia may have contributed, but it wasn't the primary cause.
FLASHBACK... but the man's DNA was not a match
Searching: Other Suspects?
A Man Obsessed?
Oct. 4, 2002
Excerpted...
The man was Gary Oliva, 38, a convicted sex offender from Oregon who made frequent trips to Boulder. He has been classified as a paranoid schizophrenic. He was convicted of assaulting another 7-year-old girl in Oregon, and spent time in prison.
Smit is convinced that a pedophile came into the Ramsey home and killed their daughter. “I’ve probably got 25 good leads. And I probably have another 50 pages of other leads to follow,” he says.
Among the files he’s keeping on sex offenders in Boulder, Gary Oliva’s name stands out. Police said that in 1991, months after he sexually assaulted the little girl, Oliva tried to strangle his mother with a telephone cord. And in December 1996, Oliva, then a fugitive and a homeless drifter, may have been less than a block away from the Ramsey’s house.
full story at link...
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/10/01/48hours/main523892.shtml