“The effects of postmortem decomposition have made it impossible to prove or rule out multiple possible mechanisms of death,” read Jax Gratton’s autopsy report
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- The cause of death is undetermined for Jax Gratton, a Denver hairstylist who was missing for almost two months
- The news comes after her body was discovered in an alley in Lakewood, Colo. on June 6
- Officials could not “determine whether she was pushed, fell or jumped from the window while alive, or was dropped from the window after death”
Almost four months after hairstylist Jax Gratton was last seen alive, authorities have announced that her cause of death can’t be determined, due to how severely decomposed her remains were by the time her body was found.
The frantic search for the 34-year-old woman began in April and ended with the discovery of her remains in a narrow space between two buildings in Lakewood, Colo., a suburb of her home city of Denver, on Friday, June 6.
“The effects of postmortem decomposition have made it impossible to prove or rule out multiple possible mechanisms of death, including complications of drug use, accidental blunt force injuries, assault by another, or some other scenario,” authorities said in the autopsy report obtained by PEOPLE from the Jefferson County Coroner’s Office…