plus the large quantity of blood he lost from his other wounds (Anderson's book shows that crime scene photos, which look like somebody splashed a couple of buckets of pig's blood around a movie set, and ALL of it was Platt's)
It's amazing just how much surface area a human's blood can cover from a major artery leakage.
Went into a house once upon a time where the victim had been shot on the inside of the thigh just above the knee with a shotgun blowing up the femoral artery............there was a pool of blood five feet or so in diameter & it looked like it was a 1/2" thick, just all thick on gooy - helluva a sight.
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