What is Traumatic Asphyxiation?
Traumatic asphyxiation, also called crush asphyxiation, is the official cause of death in the murder of Yale student Annie Le, according to an abbreviated Coroner’s report released September 16, 2009. The pretty student went missing on her wedding day and was later found stuffed into the wall of a campus lab. Asphyxiation is not a pleasant sounding way to die, but what exactly is meant by “traumatic asphyxiation?
