a second autopsy on Cruz. "There is putty and makeup. It's not obvious."

'NEW FINDINGS'

The CHR autopsy takes two hours. That's twice as long as the police autopsy, according to Eusebio's staff.

At the end, Jimenez says "thank you" to Cruz's corpse, and his team observes a moment of silence. Then he explains his findings to the family. The bottom line: None of the findings of the second autopsy suggest that Cruz was executed, he says.

There are no obvious clues pointing to an execution, such as a shot to the forehead or the back of the head. And only limited information can be gleaned from an autopsy on a body like Cruz's that has already been embalmed, Jimenez told Reuters. Organs change consistency, he said, and stitching destroys the edgesof wounds and changes their size and shape.

Nevertheless, some evidence has clearly been overlooked. And Rita seems mollified by the new information from the second autopsy. The police hadn't opened her husband's skull and hadn't found the bullet fragment lodged in his brain.

She says she and her family will need to decide whether to continue to press for answers. "There are new findings," she says. "We may file a police case."

Back inside the funeral parlor, Rogelio Coraza, who has worked at Eusebio for a decade, spends an hour re-stitching Cruz's wounds and bathing and dressing the body. He glues Cruz's eyes shut, then uses an assortment of sponges, brushes and make-up on the body.

He then puts baby oil in Cruz's hair and combs it. After Cruz's body is