Scientists studying the bones noted signs of severe skull wounds, suggesting that these men were possibly on the losing side of a violent Norse blood feud.
Two of the skull wounds were potentially fatal.
Many of the armed females bear war injuries, just like their male counterparts: arrows embedded in bones, ribs slashed in sword fights, and skull wounds from pointed battle-axes.
According to the prosecutor, the autopsy revealed that Malcolm died from injuries to the ribs, jaw and in particular, the back of the skull – wounds consistent with receiving a fierce beating with a blunt object rather than a fall off a three-story roof.
The alignment of a mark on the inside of the skull, a wound on a vertebra, and the smaller of two wounds on the base of the neck suggest he was killed by a weapon that was thrust from the base of his neck into his head, researchers said.
Malala Yousafzai, "The Daily Show," October 8, 2013 Malala Yousafzai, the courageous and tireless champion for the rights of women and girls throughout the world to access quality education, has never swerved from her message even after the Taliban in her Pakistani town hijacked her school bus and pummeled bullets into her skull critically wounding her at the young age of 14.
And evidence of execution is often readily apparent as well: bound hands, blindfolded skulls and wounds from point-blank gunshots are usually tell-tale signs.
Dr. Baden said he suspected that Ms. Bhutto died from a bullet that left two or three tiny fragments seen on X-rays before it exited the skull through a wound that the Pakistani doctors did not notice in part because they apparently did not shave the bloodied thick scalp hair.
The authorities said Mr. McCall had a fractured skull and stab wounds in his back, neck and forehead.
She has a hairline skull fracture, and wounds on her left temple and ear, where the bullet grazed her skin, Commissioner D'Aliso said.
