Azzata said women's clothing were found on the body but the gender of the victim, as well as race and age, would be determined by forensic anthropologists in the county medical examiner's office.

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Spitz, a forensic pathologist and toxicologist and the chief medical examiner for Michigan's Macomb and St.

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Dr. Robert Shaler, chief of forensic biologist in the New York City medical examiner's office, told The Associated Press that most victims examined died from "blunt trauma, " and others from burns, smoke inhalation and injuries from sharp debris.

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