Forensics Quiz

Ok, let me get things straight. First of all, the woman was not found with a gun wound. She was found with an arrow wound, shot by the guy who triggered the bomb causing the girl's ear to fly off and who shot the elderly woman with no life alert and who then fell down the stairs. That same arrow guy.

Malcom Merlin

Anyways, what happened was this woman had seen Malcom murder the life alert-less lady and so she was a witness to his madness. In turn, Malcom Merlin sent an arrow straight through the woman's body, causing it to puncture the woman's diaphram, stomach, and then large intestine on its way out of the body. The woman then died from a loss of blood, but had time to stumble around, grasp a table, then stumble some more, hit a granite table, fracturing the rib, then falling on her back, dead. This is the most plausible reason because it stays true to the arrow's path through the body, and how the lady ended up on her back.

The first alternative is that the arrow caught her heart, dying instantly. This is less plausible because how would she have broken a rib like this? How would she have landed supinely while shot from behind?

Another alternative is that the arrow hit her lung, puncturing it and causing her to not be able to breath due to lack of oxygen. The only problem with this is that she probably wouldn't have died supinely.

The last possible alternative is that she had an inflammatory intestine disease, causing the rib to rest on her  intestine because of its enormous size. Thus, when the arrow exited through her intestine, the rib was fractured due to its support being deflated and then the rib punctured her liver, causing her to die of liver failure. This is not the leading diagnosis because it is somewhat ambitious.