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36<H1>Ligature</H1>
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43<center><table border=1 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=90%><tr><td><div id="block">Kenneth Michael Trentadue was tortured and murdered on August 21st, 1995, while incarcerated at the Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He was strangled with plastic handcuffs or "flexicuffs."<br />
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45Above is a photograph taken by the Oklahoma Medical Examiner's Office of Kenneth Trentadue's neck.  This photograph depicts the groove or furrow left on Kenneth's neck by ligature and clearly shows the cross-tie like impressions caused by the locking mechanism of the plastic handcuffs.
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50<center><b>Image 1:&nbsp;</b><a href="images/ligature2.png"><u><b>Neck Close-Up w/ Visible Flexicuff Pattern</u></a></center></b>
51<center><b>Image 2:&nbsp;</b><a href="images/ligature3.png"><b><u>Neck Thin 'Tight' Impression from Ligature</u></a></b></center><br />
52These images, close-ups of the neck area, depict the impression left upon Kenneth's neck by a ligature that is inconsistent with a bedsheet but closely matches what one would see from a thin tight plastic flexicuff or 'zip-tie' pulled taught around the neck.<br><br>A tight ligature such as this would produce enough force to cause the <b>"acute fracture of the hyoid bone"</b> noted by the Medical Examiner, whereas a bedsheet in almost all cases <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8934706/" target="_new"><u>would not</u></a> do so.<a href="https://archive.ph/kmdyV" target="_new">*</a>&nbsp;<br><BR>Indeed, the fractured hyoid bone in conjunction with <b>“petechiae and purpurea of conjunctiva" (ruptured blood vessels in the eye)</b> prove that Kenney was strangled -- by a person, who we now know was using plastic handcuffs.
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54<H2>Supporting Documentation</H2><UL>
55<H3><a href="./pdf/autopsy.pdf" target="_new"><u>Kenneth Trentadue Autopsy Report | 08/21/1995</u></a>
56<br><font size=+1>⤷</font>&nbsp;SEE ALSO: <a href="./pdf/Jordan_12.11.02.pdf" target="_new"><u>Dr. Fred Jordan Deposition&nbsp;&#11037;&nbsp;12/11/2002</u></a>
57<br><font size=+1>⤷</font>&nbsp;SEE ALSO: <a href="./pdf/EXECUTIVE_SUMMARY_KMT-020725.pdf" target="_new"><u>Executive Summary of Evidence Regarding the Murder of Kenneth Michael Trentadue and the Cover-Up of That Crime</u></a>&nbsp;[<a href="./pdf/EXECUTIVE_SUMMARY_KMT-EXHIBITS_1-65.pdf" target="_new"><u>Exhibits 1-65</u></a>]&nbsp;&#11037;&nbsp;2025</H3>
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