[doc maverick]

She could still be alive. A person can bleed that much from a bloody nose.
A head laceration would bleed more than that.
And someone put a rag or something over it.
That’s why the blood stopped.
If someone is murdered by beating or gun shot, there’s blood all over, congealed blood and blood spatter everywhere.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Yes, gunshots leave a real mess. They could have strangled her, and that could have caused a nose bleed.