Autopsy Raises Questions in Death of Teen Found Naked in Road

the autopsy results are in for a teenager in Oklahoma but still there are so many questions about the death of Noah presgrove we dig in to the autopsy report with a crime scene investigator thanks for joining me for Crime fix I'm anginette Levy Noah presgrove was 19 when a truck driver found him on a highway in Terrell Oklahoma just before 6:00 a.m. on September 4th of last year Noah was naked and only wearing unmatching shoes a pair of shorts believed to noas were found nearby but undamaged also found nearby a metal white chain and part of a Muller tooth what wasn't found there were no vehicle parts or debris at the scene the autopsy report says that further investigation revealed that the deant was at a house party and drinking on September 3rd of 2023 then he wrote an ATV Ranger vehicle with several men that had a rollover accident the decedent was alive following the incident and returned to the party where he got into an argument with his girlfriend what happened after that remains a mystery the autopsy found that Noah had several blunt force injuries to his head and his neck there were fractures to the skull and swelling to the brain he had abrasions which are big scrapes on the left side of his face including his neck cheek and ears and broken lower and upper teeth the pathologist wrote there were abrasions on the right back of the head behind the right ear and subadjacent posterior right neck there was bleeding coming out from the right and left ears the upper and lower teeth were broken with few fragments found inside the mouth there were white abrasions on the midline mucosa of the upper lip Noah also had wide scrapes on his back containing black material and abrasions on his arms and his backside there were lacerations on his lungs and fractures to his ribs the pathologist ultimately found in consideration of the circumstances surround ing the death autopsy examination and toxicology result the death of Noah Alexander Nichols is due to multiple blunt force injuries the deedon was found naked wearing only a pair of shoes on the side of a highway on the morning of September 4th 2023 there were no vehicle parts or debris observed on the scene at this time what transpired on the body was found on the road having multiple blunt force injuries is unknown therefore the manner of of death is deemed undetermined we now know what caused Noah's death but we don't know how he died this is a law and crime legal alert Google incognito tracked users browsing data without their knowledge Mass Tor Alliance one of our legal sponsors is helping users like you file for compensation because Google misled users about the privacy of its Incognito browser if you've used Google incognito anytime since 2016 you can start your claim by answering less than 10 questions log on to incognito climf I want to bring in somebody to help me discuss what we know about the autopsy results for Noah press grob she's Alina burough she is the host of crime scene confidential on ID she's also a forensic consultant a former crime scene investigator a CSI real life CSI so Elina welcome thanks so much for coming on uh this is somebody a young guy 19 years old a healthy guy who suffered a lot of significant trauma to his head and his neck um and his upper body so um there's a lot going on with this autopsy and the results a lot y um this is definitely one of those puzzles that you have to kind of follow down One path until it doesn't make any sense and then pivot and go down a different path certainly uh a lot of trauma one thing that I found interesting and and we need to couch everything we say with the fact that we are look at the autopsy report we're looking at what the pathologist found we have not seen photographs of the scene um we have not been to the scene and visited it so we haven't seen what they are seeing but one thing that I found interesting was the fact that um very sad Noah is found on the highway he has abrasions on his back wide scrapes is what they basically call it with um black material in there he's naked he has two different shoes on he had some writing on his body probably from the party um you know broken teeth I mean there's a lot of damage here um but there's no car debris so does that rule out the possibility that this could have been an accident where he was hit and a vehicle took off a hit and run something like that yeah the injuries that we're looking at uh really to me rule out hit and run for a couple of reasons one when we look at the evidence we're looking at the fact that he is wearing the the two mismatched shoes which first thing everybody's going to be questioning is why is he wearing two mismatched shoes it looks like he had exchanged shoes with a friend at the party um you know as an investigator the first thing that piques my interest why the mismatched shoes and if he's wearing mismatched shoes there's another set of mismatched shoes somewhere but uh you know through a little bit of research it looked like this was a an you know kind of a a fun act with a friend but one of those shoes is a slip-on style uh speed laced shoe called a hey dude shoe right that would come off very easily so that's our first clue the the second thing is that those shoes don't appear according to the autopsy report to have any damage on them so that rules out dragging right uh we would expect to see some abrasions or some wear and tear on the shoe if that had occurred so we would expect that he would have lost the shoe or we would see some damage on the shoe then when we look at the injuries that he'd incurred if we see a a hit and run if he'd been walking on the side of the road and he would have been struck by a vehicle we would expect to see some uh fractured femurs right legs pelvis that were fractured and what we lack here with his injuries although they're extensive is we don't have leg fractures we don't have broken ankles we don't have fractured pelvis all of his injuries really appear to be um torso head neck uh they're all pretty much waist up now we do see some abrasions we see some minor injuries waste down but really everything is concentrated from the waist up and when we lack those you know injuries or or those you know damages on the shoes that takes this in a very interesting Direction I think it's interesting too and the fact that it's so confusing to me that he's he has all this injury to his body he's naked he's wearing two different shoes yet there's a pair of shorts undamaged nearby um so I'm left to wonder did somebody dump him there was he placed there somehow but then we have the black material in the scrapes on his back which makes it sound like to me well he had to have been scraped somehow we know that he was in the ATV accident but was still able to return to the party according to what's written um in the autopsy report so we have undamaged shorts he's naked except for shoes but he had been in this ATV incident but was still able to go back to the party so it it's very confounding to me does it seem like somebody dumped him there it you know that's the shorts would look like those shorts are undamaged and we see that he does have abrasions on his buttocks so the shorts being undamaged right meaning they don't really appear to have from the autopsy report blood on them they don't appear to be scuffed up or scraped in some way so then we know he's not wearing them at the time of the incident so is he walking and holding them and then something happens to cause him to drop those shorts or is he dumped and then somebody throws those out along with him you know those are our two options that we're looking at uh with these injuries we would expect to see a significant amount of blood with the skull fractures that we're dealing with so if this scene lacks blood that is something that would would lead law enforcement to consider whether or not this was a you know what we call a dump site but also we have to take into consideration the substrate and if that's something that the ground would saturate if they were able to find an area you know where that blood could potentially be now the autopsy report does say that there's black material embedded in some of the injuries that to me sounds more like he has been pressed or had some type of crushing IND injury that has embedded substrate asphalt type material I'm sure they're going to collect that and want to test that the other thing that's interesting to me is there is a piece of the autopsy report that seems to indicate some type of pattern injury at the rear shoulder uh linear and circular pinpoint types of injuries I don't know I haven't seen photographs but when we're talking about a pattern injury on a roadway you know the first thing that comes to my mind is are we talking about a tire um we seem to have a majority of injuries that are on the left hand side of his body we have a left lung that's collapsed we also have rib fractures when we're looking at beating type of trauma which has to be a concern or consideration in this case most ribs that are fractured from beating are lower rib cages right that's people that are punching in like gut type shots his ribs that are fractured are very high we're talking uh ribs that are normally protected Ed by your shoulder blades your clavicles those aren't shots that people take when they're punching or beating somebody those are corresponding ribs that are fractured on the right and the left and they're about the width of a tire are we looking at somebody who is passed out on the roadway and a car rolls over the body crushing those ribs leaving that pattern type injury embedding asphalt into the back as it rolls his body over that was going to be my next question to you um you know my my thinking was is he in the road and he's run over by a vehicle the vehicle maybe doesn't see him it mentions how it was not a well-lit road and somehow he's in the road and he gets run over by a vehicle or hit by a vehicle that that isn't aware that they're hitting somebody or or something like that I I don't know that I'm just that's speculation on my part and again we haven't seen these pictures uh you know they they say that his manner of death and there are you know five manners of death just so the listeners and the viewers understand um we have natural um accidental homicide suicide and undetermined this is undetermined because they don't have enough information they know what caused his death all of this blunt force trauma um To The Head and the neck uh but they don't know basically the how like did somebody do this intentionally was it caused by another person they we don't have that information so where does the investigation go from here because I can't imagine that it's over there there has to be some something else there has to be more going on well keep in mind that when a body is found nude they are automatically going to look towards is sexual assaults a possibility um you know I don't think that that's the case here but the fact that he is found naked is going to be uh cause for concern they're going to take uh panile swabs anal swabs they're automatically going to do fingernail scrapings and clippings just to see if there are any signs of struggle so I'm sure that those are being sent to a lab just to see if there are any type of foreign DNA profiles they're going to wait for those to come back so no an investigation is not over because it's undetermined they're going to be conducting interviews I would be hardpressed to think that there is somebody out there that does not have some information you do not hit something of that size if that were the case not seeing the scene or any photographs but if there is a pattern injury on this child somebody out there knows they hit something yeah it's um it's confounding and I I think we need more information too about how did he leave the party was it after the argument with the girlfriend or was it sometime after that like was he walking away from the party how far away was the party um there's still a lot of questions that we don't have the answers to but um we'll look into it further and we appreciate your time Elina um it's a really sad case just poor kid um passing it's awful yeah yeah and I know the family just wants answers yeah most definitely and they deserve them thank you so much Alina burrows for coming on thank you for having me and that's it for this episode of crime fix I'm an Janette Levy thanks so much for being with me I'll see you back here next time

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Length: 13min 26sec (806 seconds)

Published: Fri May 17 2024