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There were indications of rape, but nothing definitive. Although there was no tearing or abrasion of the vaginal walls or inside the rectum, Laga noted in his report what he described as a "white...fluid running out of the vagina."

Genore's fingernails were trimmed off and bagged. Later, technicians at the State Police crime lab would put them in a chemical wash to leech away any skin scrapings that might have been trapped under them. A comparison sample of hair was pulled from her scalp. Oral, vaginal, and rectal swabs were taken. And a combing from her pubic hair as well as pulled hair follicles were collected. Genore's blood was collected in test tubes for toxicology screening and alcohol testing.

Dr. Laga finished his post-mortem examination of the remains of Genore Guillory at 1:30 Tuesday morning. East Feliciana detectives Don McKey and Drew Thompson went back to Clinton. Adam Becnel took the evidence and photographs to the State Police crime lab. Dr. Laga went home. Genore Guillory traveled by hearse to the Owens-Thomas funeral parlor in her hometown of Eunice, Louisiana, in St. Landry Parish, halfway between Baton Rouge and the Texas state line. Two days later, she was laid to rest in St. Mathilda Cemetery in Eunice.

Later his report, Dr. Laga would estimate the time of Genore's death to have been between noon Saturday, June 24, and noon Sunday, June 25. The manner of her death he listed as homicide. The cause of that death, the doctor explained in his report, using the necessarily cold and stilted language of the autopsist, was "multiple trauma, including lethal blunt trauma to head (5 blows), fracturing skull, directly injuring brainstem and causing intracranial subdural hemorrhage (50 ml), in addition to five non-lethal gunshot wounds to left upper/lower extremity and right shoulder, five non-bleeding trunk-penetrating stabwounds..."

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