from previous-

-soon  enough he  realised  the  victim"s  scalp  was  badly  injured, from the  many cracks  he  had  bled, all the  blood  had  covered  his  body  and  hardened , his face  was  also  plastered  in his  dried  clotted  bleed, his  clothes  also  were  soiled  in his  own blood, the  investigator  "s  experienced  eye  calculated  he had  been dead  eight  hours  already