however, following stacy peterson's later disappearance, savio's body was exhumed and underwent forensic examination on november 16, 2007. michael baden, a former new york city medical examiner who conducted the examination at the request of savio's relatives and fox news, concluded that she died of drowning following a struggle when her body was placed in the bathtub. postmortem photos showed extensive bruising and scraping to her back, torso, and face, as well as a large, unexplained gash in her scalp. the results of the official autopsy ordered by the county have yet to be released to the public. will county state's attorney james glasgow told the press that, after examining evidence in the case, he believed that the death was a "homicide staged to look like an accident”. on february 21, 2008, glasgow announced that a pathologist had determined that savio's death was a homicide, adding that the death had been investigated as such since reopening the case following the exhumation.