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“Your daughter is on an autopsy table”
The phrase rings in the poor mother’s ears to this day. April had been calling around conducting her own missing persons investigation trying to find her daughter Codie Novack. There had been issues of domestic violence in her relationship and now Codie had missed two appointments on the morning of January 5th, 2023. She hadn’t come home, and she wouldn’t answer the phone. Where was Codie?
“Your daughter is on an autopsy table”
Strangely the GPS on her phone said she was at the sheriff station but when this desperate mother called she was repeatedly told that Codie was not there. Finally, she gets a hold of the boyfriend and he utters the phrase that would change her life forever.
Cody
Codie Novack, 27, was staying in a shared house in Ocala Florida at the time of her death. It was a three-bedroom house that was rented out by the room. She had her own space but shared the living quarters with other people. They weren’t necessarily her friends, but this was her living arrangement at the moment.
Several “narratives” emerged at the beginning of this brutal saga, but none of them made sense to anyone who knew Codie.
The boyfriend was the one who actually called 911 around midnight. At 12:17 a.m. the EMTs declared her officially dead. His narrative was that she fell hit her head and neck and then decided to go to sleep. He checked on her a couple of hours later and found her cold.
The EMTs found her covered in bruises, but the report also states that rigor mortis had set in and she had a lot of visible lividity. These two things don’t happen instantly upon death. Rigor mortis takes up to 2 hours to begin its processes. This means that Cody
Codie died closer to 10:00 pm on January 4th. Of course, all of this is unofficially my opinion. When April tried to ask law enforcement about the time of death she was told that those were TV answers, insinuating that the science wasn’t legitimate. If you study how rigor mortis works you will realize that this has been a go-to method for finding times of death for decades. So what science is illegitimate here?
Codie was covered in bruises and there were some lacerations on her face. Strangely there were lacerations on both sides of her face as if she had stood herself up and had fallen again. The strange bruising patterns around the neck and collarbone are what concerned me. Yet none of these bruises seemed to change the narrative of the story. She has bruises around her elbows as if someone has grabbed her, and bruises on her legs all the way around her kneecaps. Strangely she doesn’t have any bruising on the palms of her hands as if she fell and caught herself. Instead, she has bruises on the knuckles, backs of her hands, and her wrists as if she were covering her head in a defensive maneuver.
I cannot go into detail on all of the strange bruises that were found on this poor woman’s body, but none of them add up to an accidental death in my book.
After fighting for 19 months, April still doesn’t have any definitive answers to any of the questions about her daughter’s case. The only definite answer is she is gone, yet the case was closed within thirty days. Check out my interview with April using the link below.
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