She was placed in the body bag while she was alive

The hospital in turn, he said, “filed a motion to get out of the case saying there are red fleshy substances [in her wounds] … therefore she must have been alive,” he said of the approximated timing of her injuries.

Schutzman said he immediately consulted his own expert to verify their claims and to his horror, learned that their review concluded the same: “She was placed in the body bag while she was alive,” he said.

“Shock is not the word,” he said of his own reaction. “I was horrified.”

The expert, cited in court documents appealing a lawsuit filed by the family, concluded that “the decedent ‘had been prematurely declared dead’ by Dr. John Plosay and the Hospital staff, ‘frozen alive’ in the Hospital’s freezer, ‘eventually woke up’ due to the extreme cold, and ‘damaged her face and turned herself face down as she struggled unsuccessfully to escape her frozen tomb.'”