massachusetts state trooper jamie magarian, the lead investigator, studied the scene. let it talk to him. any obvious injuries to the victim here? are we talking about stab wounds, bullets holes -- >> no. no. >> reporter: lacerations, abrasions? >> there's a large amount of blood and there's several lacerations to the -- the head. >> reporter: it seemed like the body had been there for a while. >> i touched the deceased for the first time, with rigor mortis setting in, i thought, how long that body had been on that floor. >> reporter: there was an open paint bucket at the scene. and paint -- light-colored paint -- everywhere. >> the paint, to me, is fresh paint. it's wet. there was a thin layer of paint on the deceased that appeared to be dry in some spots, but then there was other paint on the deceased that was still wet and a large amount of paint on the floor that was wet. >> reporter: did this look like the case of somebody who had taken a bad fall? and somehow ends up knocking into the paint can and causing the paint to spill over them? >> no, because in the confi