When Bella's body is found hanged, in addition to several missing characteristics of a hanging death, the body shows absolutely no signs of cyanosis, in particularly but not exclusively (depending how long the decedent has been dead) blue or blackened lips, tongue and eyes, fingers and fingernails. There is also a complete lack of lividity at the distal ends of the arms and legs as the blood pools to those areas. Bella's perfect, unblemished doll-like body is supposedly a corpse, but whatever the cause of the death, it could not be from asphyxia by hanging.