Episode Summary
In 2013 a 17-year-old boy’s body was found rolled up in a high school gym mat. Local law enforcement was quick to rule it an accident and move on but the family is sure this is a case of murder being covered up.
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Episode Info
This is the gym where Kendrick was found.
Here is an image of Kendrick found inside the mat. You can see his shoes that he was wearing during the day are off his feet and next to his legs inside the rolled up mat. The question for many people is how did they get there if they weren’t placed?
This is the photo posted by Kendrick’s family as proof that his death wasn’t an accident.
Kendrick when he was actually pulled from the mat.
Kendrick’s dad trying to illustrate his son was too wide to fit in the mat.
Shoes at the top of the mat that Kendrick had been wearing that day.
The shoe that was below Kendrick. Presumably the one he was reaching for. But why is there blood under the shoe and not on it?
Episode Source Material
- Third Autopsy shows Kendrick Johnson Suffered blunt Force Trauma
- Sudden Deaths from Positional Asphyxia
- Positional Asphyxia: Death due to Unusual Head-Down Position in a Narrow Space
- Kendrick’s Final Walk
- Second Autopsy Report
- Kendrick Johnson Death Scene Video
- Public documents
- Kendrick Johnson lawsuit: Feds want attorneys to stop collecting evidence
- Parent’s of Georgia teen found dead in gym mate rally for inquiry
- National civil right attorney no longer involved in Kenrick Johnson case
- Kendrick Johnson family hold rally after filing complaint about missing organs
- No wrong doing detected in Kendrick Johnson funeral home probe
- Body of Kendrick Johnson being exhumed
- Kendrick Johnson footage released; expert find it ‘highly suspicious’
- KJ family drops $100 million wrongful death suit
- Local, federal investigations into gym mat death continue