And the proof of it, I found out from the coroner. The coroner called me the next day and said, “We just want you to know that that man did die from asphyxiation by the snake. How common is that?” I said, “Well really unusual. The snake must’ve panicked or somethin’.” I said, “How do you know the snake kill him?” He says, “Well when a man dies, rigor mortis sets in real quick and the snake continued his constriction, so that under his neck, all across his chest were imprints of the scale. Each scale left its imprint. And then as he exhaled, the snake tightened up. Exhale, he kept and he died of asphyxiation. And then the snake crawled off.
