Because the body was cold and rigor mortis had set in, the pathologist had difficulty removing the body from the recess and on to a large black polythene sheet so he could examine it more thoroughly. Blood soiled her brown-coloured hair, and the exposed skin of her chest and abdomen. Now he could see several stab wounds in the front and sides of the abdomen and chest and a lacerated wound to the back of the scalp. The available light had gone and it was now completely dark.
When the body was taken to the city mortuary for the post-mortem Professor Gee found the familiar semicircular laceration. A depressed fracture of the underlying skull was clearly visible. On the trunk he found a number of oval-shaped stab wounds and others triangular shaped. In the tracks of some of these wounds, which had penetrated several vital organs, he discovered some kind of streaky black material which he thought was a kind of grease. Again the stabbing instrument appeared to have been reintroduced through the same wound without being fully removed. This detail particularly disturbed him.